Flukes Quotes

• Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

  Althea Gibson

  Winning, Prove, Great Winning

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• My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

  Robert Harris

  Careers, Unexpected

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• Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.

  Sun Tzu

  Warrior, Winning, Bravery

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

  Althea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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• Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

  Willard Scott

  Done, Has Beens

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• We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

  Bill Bryson

  Doors, Years, Four

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.319, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Clubs

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• I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

  Alex Chilton

  Records, Firsts, Has Beens

  "A Man Called (Self) Destruction — The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" by Binky Philips, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

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• What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex...

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, College, Doe

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", February 29, 2012.

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• There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

  Terry McMillan

  Weakness, Looks, Attention

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• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  Patrick Stewart

  Good Luck, Hollywood, Roles

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• Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

  Amy Tan

  Kindness, Inspiration, Desperation

  Amy Tan (2004). “The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings”

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• The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

  Kelly Lynch

  Cowboy, Facts

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• The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Real, Men, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Greed, World

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• Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

  Sandra Fluke

  Meaningful, Voice, Silence

  "Sandra Fluke: Slurs won't silence women" by Sandra Fluke, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

  Michael J. Fox

  Worst Case Scenario, Doe, Imagine

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• Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Parent, May

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.20, Zondervan

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• Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

  Tim Cahill

  Moving, Swimming, Whales

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• So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is - we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, Want Something, Pay

  "Sandra Fluke Takes Fight for Women’s Health to DNC After Being Insulted for Contraception Advocacy". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 06, 2012.

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• By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

  Lizz Winstead

  Confidence, Self, What If

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.46, Penguin

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• Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.

  Maxx Williams

  Nfl

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• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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• Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

  Gabe Paul

  Baseball, Jobs, Games

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• The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.

  Sandra Oh

  Boys, Years, Careers

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