Bad Luck – Quotes

[The Land] is a

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[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck. Erykah Badu

[Robert] Capa: He was

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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa’s death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954) Ernest Hemingway

Luck is not chance,

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Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson

Good night, and good

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Good night, and good luck. Edward R. Murrow

And the winds and

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And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon

If not for bad

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If not for bad luck we’d have no luck at all. Edna Buchanan

A man forgets his

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A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year. E. W. Howe

It is bad luck

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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it. Friedrich Durrenmatt

I sometimes think we

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I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Any fool can have

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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. Frank Wedekind