Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Adam Clayton I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Richard Nixon I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Buddy Rice I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Walter Chrysler I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren’t aware how much it carried me through.
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  • Angela Merkel I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • George Macdonald I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Vince Lombardi I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Anthony Holden I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Alphonse Karr I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Cormac McCarthy I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
    The Sunset Limited (2011) 46
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Steven Wright I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Adolph Green I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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