Nevertheless, he wished me luck and allocated one of his staff to paddle my support canoe.
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"They all wished me luck and told me I was going to fail, " says Getson.
They all wished me luck with my elk and patted me on the back as I left for my cabin that night.
But in fact it wasn't luck that got me here (unless I mean luck of birth).
In my own case, a bit of very important good luck tracked me down one day in 1981, as I stood at a San Francisco curbside, washing my crummy old car.
But the most dreadful ill-luck pursued me.
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So today has me reflecting on the concept of luck in general.
The taxi driver who finally chauffeured me home was pleasant enough, although a stark notice on the back of the seat reminded me that it would not be wise to push my luck.
Yahoo has struck me for a long time as a company that simply has bad luck in things.
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"I'm a little bit sad because it's only luck that I passed on to Q3 because he really slowed me down, " he said.
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This is about the time I would expect to have my luck run out, to have some Foot Knight charge up behind me with a pole-axe and thwack me to death.
As luck would have it, you all probably have a chance to ask me questions on Friday, and we can get to Friday.
Luckily for me (and regardless of what anyone else says, there is a lot of luck involved in angel investing), I have since had significant positive exits to companies like Kodak, CBS and Facebook, and the current value of my portfolio is approaching the 30% IRR that rational angels target.
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My luck was changing, and I was almost convinced I would find Fumiko waiting for me at my door.
My only disappointment is that I was hoping some Esteemed Couture House was going to try to get me to wear their latest Haute Flannel Pajamas for the event, but so far, no luck.
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"It is surprising to me that this has happened, " said the 30-year-old Vancsik, who rode his luck when his ball rebounded off a cart path on the 10th when it should have gone out of bounds.
He brings me to the summit of a little mountain to take in a panorama of the bay and, with any luck, to spot some of Palawan's celebrity fauna: green sea turtles, dugongs, sharks, whale sharks and the world's most adorable ungulate, the Chihuahua-size Philippine mouse deer.
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