Fortunate Quotes - Page 36

• I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Good Life, Blessing, Age

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.

  Bill Nye

  Meaningful, Thinking, Years

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.39, St. Martin's Press

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• Go for the girl who can eat a proper meal. If she's passionate about food, you'll most likely be fortunate in other venues.

  Liz Vassey

  Girl, Meals, Passionate

  "10 Things You Don't Know About Women: Liz Vassey" by Liz Vassey, www.esquire.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Ive been incredibly fortunate to be able to have different opportunities and be able to choose, which is kind of amazing.

  Steven Strait

  Opportunity, Different, Able

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• Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.

  James Ransone

  Gratitude, Aristocracy, Lasts

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• You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  "Showbiz Tonight" with Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2009.

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• The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  Sleep, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”

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• Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.

  Ursula Parrott

  Long, May, Silent

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• What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work force. But perhaps even more important than work force numbers is the fact that women - who began this sweeping entry in the mid-seventies - are just now beginning to assume positions of leadership, which give them the scope to create and reinforce the trends toward change. The confluence is fortunate, an alignment that gives women unique opportunities to assist in the continuing transformation of the workplace.

  Sally Helgesen

  Unique, Opportunity, Numbers

  Sally Helgesen (2011). “The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership”, p.39, Crown Business

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• We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven't seen anyone - and I mean anyone - play before. How fortunate we are to be able to see that. If he stays healthy and motivated - and the wonderful feel he has stays with him - he is the kind of guy who can overtake the greatest.

  Boris Becker

  Mean, Games, Play

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• The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

  Stephen Lang

  Ideas, Long, Television

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• I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.

  Kirby Bliss Blanton

  Real, People, Able

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Who I Am, Years

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• It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wise, History, Heaven

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.217

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• We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

  Kevin Rudd

  Art, Rocks, Europe

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

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• I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Moving, Play, Long

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

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• I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

  Jay McInerney

  Vices, Lucky, Pleasure

  " Jay McInerney: 'I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices'" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.

  Corey Taylor

  Writing, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ive been fortunate to be short my entire life. Theres only one position Ive ever had to play, and thats point guard. So Ive always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

  Chris Paul

  Jobs, Play, Leader

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• As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

  James E. Faust

  Jobs, Home, Men

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• Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.

  Ronaldinho

  Football, Player, Love Is

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• I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.

  Ryan Giggs

  Team, Mean, Boys

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• It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Careers, Chance, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  Paul McCartney

  Forever, Touching, Goes On

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