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The hard, inescapable truth is that at Jiabiangou — just as at Auschwitz and Kolyma — no matter what you did, no matter what your strategy was, your survival basically depended on blind, stupid luck.
As Carter himself observes at one point, "The plain truth was that no matter how much they spent on script development, which stars they signed to multimillion-dollar deals, how many notes they gave on story beats and character arcs, hits most often arrived on a network executive's doorstep by chance, by whim, by blind, stupid luck".
Lana Wachowski: Blind stupid luck.
He went on to ask me about the other content acquisitions I had made like Barney Miller, Charlie's Angels etc. and he about died when I told him that these deals were just "blind and stupid luck".
Bayern, a club with massively out-sized expectations at the start of the season, hasn't won the Champions League since 2001, and by sheer stupid luck of the host-selection process they're playing this game in their home stadium.
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People call me stupid, say good luck getting a job.
Or you could just believe that scientists are really stupid – that they lucked out on stuff like the internet and the Higgs Boson.
"That kind of luck is just stupid," Miller said.
Written by Steven Conrad and directed by Gabriele Muccino, "The Pursuit of Happyness" recounts how Chris, plagued by some bad luck, a few stupid moves and a shrew for a wife, Linda (Thandie Newton), loses his apartment and, with his 5-year-old, Christopher (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Mr. Smith's own beautiful son), joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless.
The only reason I'm not where they are is just pure luck, it's just a stupid genetic lottery.
Anyone saying Owen is passed it, is stupid, the guy has had such bad luck with injuries!
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