In theater, what does the quote, "Break A Leg, Today," have to do with good luck. How is it interpreted?
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As you might know, it's bad luck to say Good luck in a theatre. \nFrom the website:\nGermans say Hals- und Beinbruch, “neck and leg break”, as ways of wishing someone good luck without any fear of supernatural retaliation. It is sometimes said that the German expression is actually a corruption of a Hebrew blessing hatzlakha u-brakha, “success and blessing”, which may have been borrowed via Yiddish. Whatever its source, the most plausible theory is that Hals- und Beinbruch was transferred into the American theatre (in which Yiddish- or German-speaking immigrant Jews were strongly represented) sometime after World War I.
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It means that you shouldn't wait around for luck to give you things, but instead if you act you have a better chance of getting what you want
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It means a person who has a positive attitude towards life, finds something to be happy about even in bad times. And who else could be more luckier than any one else who is happy all the time in this world where there is whole lot of hatred, accidents, sad times, where every few hours you could be upset on something or the other. \nHe accepts every thing cheerfully, let it be good days or bad days. He just finds something or the other which is good about that happening, which makes him luckier than others.
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It means something similar to 'Idle hand are the Devils playthings'... they both mean in essence..\nIf you have too much time on your hands, you are going to get in trouble.
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I think it's Samoan and means something like "Good luck in your day and work."
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"Go And Catch a Falling Star" - John Donne.\n\nIt is dominated by irony, not dominant in irony.
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Bad things happen to every one occasionally, but if you are supersticious like me, try this.  Find a horseshoe, and "Nail it up so that the ends of the horseshoe are pointing downward.  Don't let anybody tell you that when the points are up, your luck is caught within as in a corncopia."  The horseshoe is a great good luck charm that recieves it's energy from the cresent moon.  Hang it over the door.
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It's probably from Aesop's Fables. That's where most quotes like that come from.
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The above answer is correct except I always heard it differently. The last verse as I remember it is:\n\nDown came the good fairy who said\nYou've had three chances \nNow I'm going to turn you into a GOON!\n\nAnd the moral of this story is...\n\nHare today, goon tomorrow.
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Where did you get that from? They both mean the same thing.\n\n"As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured". Meaning that because he has hurt other so he needs to get hurt. Karma.\n\n"If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."\nMeaning the same thing. If someone hurts you, the other needs to get hurt. Karma.\n\nDon't take it too literally. I don't even know where you got that from.
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It's the truth.  It's basically meaning, even if something bad happens to you, if you can laugh at it, it's much easier to live with that situation.\n\nI have learned to deal with bad situations that way, and I have a much happier life and a better life.  Because by looking at things on the bright side and trying to laugh them off, I have been able to shake off a lot of stress and by dealing with those kinds of things in that way, you really lift a huge weight off your shoulders and it's much easier to move on to bigger and better things.\n\nFor instance, if you go to drive your car and discover it has an obvious flat tire, thus you can't go where you had planned on going.  This has happened to me before just a couple of weeks ago, and instead of getting upset because I couldn't go where I wanted to go, I laughed and thought, well at least it was already flat instead of me getting into the car and driving 70 miles an hour and then it going flat and blowing up on me.
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it means "relating to, (or in a manner similar to) Daedalus".  \n\nDaedalus tried to fly, and burnt his wings.
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originally said in the movie "Cool Hand Luke" (starring Paul Newman) by the prison Captain (played by Strother Martin):\n\nWhat we've got here is failure to communicate.\n\nSome men, you just can't reach.\n\nSo you get what we had here last week -- which is the way he wants it. \n\nWell, he gets it. \n\nAnd I don't like it anymore than you men.\n\n(This line was later used in Full Metal Jacket, and in the Guns N' Roses song Civil War)
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It's a symbol of the fact that both good luck and bad luck will eventually pass.  Wikipedia has more at the link below.
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Its a quote from a movie\n\nTommy Boy (1995)\n\nTommy: You better pray to the god of skinny punks that this wind doesn't pick up, cos I'll come over there, and jam an oar up your ass.
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if you cant be a highway be a trail, if you cant be the sun be a star, its not by size that you win or fail, be the best of what you are\n\nor \n\ntime is the moment that lasted forever and the day that disappeared\n\nor\n\nhope is faith holding out its hand in the dark
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It means that even though you may have found your one great love things happen.  Specifically death.  And if you really love someone you wouldn't want them to spend the rest of their life pining away for the past.  You want them to be happy.  That's what the character is saying,"I will be happy".  Obviously, I have way to much time on my hands!!!