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My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.