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It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.
- Anthony McCarten
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Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.
- Kate Klise
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
- Carlo Goldoni
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
- Walther Bothe
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I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
- Kumail Nanjiani
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One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
- John Barrow
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Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.
- Lance Stroll
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I won the national award for the best music composer and also had the fortune of scoring music for songs penned by M. Karunanidhi for the movie 'Pasakiligal.'
- Vidyasagar
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Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
- Belle Boyd
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I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.
- Stephen Henderson
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
- Mindy McCready
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There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'
- David Quammen
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The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.
- Tucker Carlson
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
- Petrarch
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Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
- Louis Gossett, Jr.
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I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'
- Martha MacIsaac
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
- Irving Harper
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Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.
- Pema Chodron
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
- Gabriela Mistral
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
- Bodhidharma
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When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
- Robert Southwell
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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
- Rachel Field
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My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
- Luke Goss
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
- Quintilian
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One of the advantages I've had as an interpreter - because I'm not a composer - is I've had the fortune of working with great composers. Armando Manzanero, Rafael Perez Botija, Manuel Alejandro. These are the people who have built my career.
- Jose Jose
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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
- Erika Slezak
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My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.
- Nicole Holofcener
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It's O.K. to accept good fortune.
- Will Oldham
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Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
- David Mallet
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Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
- Hector Elizondo
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I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.
- John W. Henry
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We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.
- Tessa Virtue
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When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
- Rory Bremner
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Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
- Dick Gephardt
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I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
- Robin Gibb
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I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
- Edith Widder
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
- Marilyn French
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I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.
- Thomas Middleditch
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I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.
- Dmitri Alperovitch
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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
- Leonard Maltin
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I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
- Kamala Harris
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I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
- Richard MacDonald
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
- Marcus Valerius Martial
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I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
- Wilson Mizner
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
- Friedrich Schiller
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I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.
- Harry Redknapp
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- Bill Gates
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When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.
- John C. Calhoun
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
- Hafez
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It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?
- Kevin Spacey
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
- Billie Jean King
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People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only a few scientists are granted the great fortune to pursue topics that are so new and different that only a small number of people can grasp the meaning of such discoveries initially.
- Stanley B. Prusiner
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
- C. V. Raman
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
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People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
- Jasmine Guinness
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Fortune is either with you or it's not.
- Tom Araya
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Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.
- Shari Arison
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I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell into work with Bob Dicke, a truly great physicist who decided a few years before that that gravity is too important to ignore, as it had been in recent years in physics.
- Jim Peebles
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Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
- Elvis Costello
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The thing I loved about the cartoons I grew up with is, to this day, I'm still just starting to get certain references from Bugs Bunny cartoons. I'll see some film noir movie and go, 'Wait, that's what Bugs Bunny was quoting!' I like the idea we made the unfolding fortune cookie for ten years from now.
- Christopher McCulloch
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I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
- Dan Hill
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I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.
- Elliot Page
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If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.
- Max Heindel
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I think back to having had the good fortune of being at Warner Bros. when we were doing 'Lois & Clark.' The chemistry between Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher was really wonderful.
- Nina Tassler
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The 'Daughter of the Regiment' that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before my career was over, I'm sure I sang the role of Marie at least a hundred times, often in productions that cost a fortune, but none touched hers.
- Beverly Sills
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Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.
- Lynda Resnick
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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 Zimmermann
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Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills.
- Greg Giraldo
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Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
- Max Walker
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When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer.
- Chloe Benjamin
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
- Amelia Barr
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
- Isaac D'Israeli
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On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.
- James Burrows
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To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.
- Mark Walter
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The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
- James Tobin
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
- Charles V
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I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.
- Paul Dano
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Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.
- Andrew Ridgeley
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
- Gary Johnson
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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
- Mario Puzo
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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
- Francis Quarles
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The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.
- Carmelo Anthony
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
- Patrick Warburton
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Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
- John Tesh
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The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
- Sydney Carter
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I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
- Roland Gift
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Putin himself made his original fortune in the early 1990s, when he stole the funds that had been entrusted to him to buy food in Europe to relieve the starvation in Leningrad that occurred during the economic collapse following the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Robert Zubrin
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I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.
- Jil Sander
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
- Manolo Blahnik
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Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
- David Hepworth
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When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.
- Michelle Ryan
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Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.
- Brendon Burchard
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
- Giacomo Casanova
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How many of the 'Fortune' 500 are hacked? 500.
- Mikko Hypponen
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
- Francis Herbert Hedge
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When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
- Victor Cruz
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
- Alain de Botton
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
- Luc de Clapiers
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Italian wines don't have to be expensive to be good. It is absolutely ridiculous that people feel that have to spend a fortune.
- Gino D'Acampo
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
- Petrarch
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