Quotes with fortune-telling

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  • Adam Baldwin It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Arthur E. Waite It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Bill Gates It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Perens It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
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  • James Weldon Johnson Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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  • W. M. Thackeray Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Booth Tarkington Major Amberson had made a fortune in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Ben Harper Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
    Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999)
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Thomas J. Peters Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Alice Munro Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Anne McCaffrey Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Broderick Crawford My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
    Broderick Crawford
    American actor (1911 - 1986)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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