Fortunate Quotes - Page 26

• Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Two, Airports, Texas

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• We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

  Stone Gossard

  Play, Fans, Jam

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• Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.

  Margaret Drabble

  Mother, Memories, Home

  Margaret Drabble (2010). “The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws”, p.329, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New York, took under his wing. He taught me how to use typography more visually, to push against design norms and not to rely on preconceived notions of what something should look like. I learned that nuance is everything and to agonize over the details. I have Jerry to thank for driving plenty of people crazy over the years!

  John Butler

  Art, New York, Crazy

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• At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect--a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.

  Robert Adams

  Perfect, Interesting, Honor

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Passion, Italian, Giants

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• The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well.

  John Rawls

  Training, Cost, Way

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Multicultural, Raised, Feels

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• Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.

  Bob Proctor

  Beautiful, Wise, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 02, 2011

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• Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Pride, People

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• We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Summer, Black, Mountain

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.126

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• A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.

  James Darren

  Night, People, House

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• We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Real, Heart, Giving

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• Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Top Down, Play

  "Ex-Senators Paid To Help Multibillion-Dollar Company Evade Corporate Income Taxes" By Shadee Ashtari, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

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• It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

  T. S. Eliot

  New York, Self, Boston

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• We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

  P. D. James

  Writing, World, Language

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by P. D. James, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

  Peter Dinklage

  People, Lucky, Reason

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

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• I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

  Rawi Hage

  Dream, Judging, Skins

  Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

  Shakira

  Germany, World, Cups

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• The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Phones, Hobbies, Hook

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• I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.

  Norman Reedus

  Ridiculous

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• I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

  Robert Duvall

  Wise, Two, Lonesome Dove

  "Robert Duvall Shines in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2006.

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• I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. Youve got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and were best friends on top of it, so were very fortunate.

  Max Greenfield

  Thinking, Wife, Important

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  Ice T

  Acting, Chosen

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