Fortunate Quotes - Page 27

• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  Gary Lineker

  Teacher, Nurse, Tree

  "They think it's all overpaid: Gary Lineker blasts footballers' big wages". www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2012.

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• Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell the truth. I felt more at ease being bold with some than I did with others. I was incredibly fortunate to have worked with Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor. We share enough taste in music and art to have had a real camaraderie, and luckily that evolved into a deep friendship.

  Gale Harold

  Movie, Art, Truth

  "Queer as Folk ‘s Gale Harold". Interview with lana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

  Olivia Colman

  Girl, Classic, Harder

  "'I'm lucky I'm not a pin-up': ITV's Broadchurch star Olivia Colman's own battle" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. March 23, 2013.

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• I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

  John Mellencamp

  Single, Records, Wheels

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• There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.

  Aga Khan IV

  Determination, Motivation, Mean

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• I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

  Michael Connelly

  Change, Regret, Book

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• We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

  Kary Mullis

  Eyebrows, Childhood, Enemy

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.27, Vintage

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• There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Opportunity, Way, My Future

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• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Work, Past, Track

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• Strange to wake-up this morning as a former ODI cricketer, but it's been a great honour and privilege playing for Sri Lanka during the past 15 years. At the end of the day, I am very fortunate to have enjoyed a long career playing with and against some great players. Thanks for all the encouragement and support over the years.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Encouragement, Morning, Past

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• Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

  James C. Collins

  Work, Circles, Three

  "Best new year's resolution? A 'stop doing' list" by James C. Collins, www.jimcollins.com. December 30, 2003.

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• I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

  Walter Kohn

  Toronto, Mathematics, Program

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• [At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin and softer curves, the way they gasped and giggled and sighed, the way the wealthy ones played their coy games, and the less fortunate ones looked at him, stars in their eyes, eager for his attention. Women were, without a doubt, the Lord's finest creation. And, at twenty-three, he had plans for a lifetime of worshipping them.

  Sarah MacLean

  Stars, Eye, Loving Life

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• Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've 'left' or need to 'go back' to one or the other. In fact, if the theatre is to avoid a brain drain, this kind of fluidity is increasingly necessary.

  Theresa Rebeck

  Moving, Feelings, Brain

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• Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation.

  Vincent de Paul

  Compassion, Suffering, Sorrow

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

  Jay McInerney

  Teacher, Writing, Two

  "Novelist Jay McInerney on Getting Your Novel Underway". Interview with Anne Bowling, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

  Jerry Rice

  Opportunity, Thinking, Oakland

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• As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

  Sam Mendes

  America, Directors, Firsts

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Artist

  "Enrique Iglesias Steams Things Up in ‘Finally Found You’" by Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2012.

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• You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

  Robert Greene

  Men, Emotional, May

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.10, Profile Books

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• Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

  John Lyly

  "Euphues". Book by John Lyly (p. 279), 1578.

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• Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

  Thierry Henry

  Sports, People, Trying

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• None of us find yoga. We are not that smart. Yoga finds us. We are taken up by it. It is nothing more than pure grace. We don’t make this happen. We are the very fortunate recipients of this divine largesse.

  Chris Kilham

  Smart, Yoga, Taken

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• I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Children, Six Months

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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