Lottery Quotes - Page 2

• Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

  Margaret Atwood

  Greed, Promise, Fuel

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• The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Husband, Years, Giving

  Interview with Samantha Bee, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

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• Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

  Lori Lansens

  Winning, Unusual, Unlikely

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Responsibility, Discharge

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• I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

  Ruth Simmons

  Latin, Winning, Men

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice.

  Drake

  Time, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Miss Me, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

  Eva Braun

  Two, Feelings, Would Be

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• We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.

  Francesca Martinez

  Beautiful, Life Is, Precious Gifts

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• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Crazy, Winning, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at utter random...nevertheless although the miracle of life stands "explained" it does not strike us as any less miraculous. As Francois Mauriac wrote, What this professor says is far more incredible than what we poor Christians believe.

  Jacques Monod

  Christian, Believe, Numbers

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• Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

  Abraham Cowley

  Hope, Cheating, Hundred

  Abraham Cowley, “Against Hope”

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• I don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Guy

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• The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

  Adam Smith

  World, Saws, Fairs

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.76

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• Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

  Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

  Funny, Marriage, Tears

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• If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

  Justin Long

  Measure Of Success, Feels, Ifs

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• At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.

  Ernest Bramah

  Winning, Names, Numbers

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.345, e-artnow

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• If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.

  Steve Morse

  Practice, Leader, Promise

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• A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Stupidity, Taxes

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• If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

  Aaron Bruno

  Winning, Waiting Around, Chance

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• I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

  Tyra Banks

  Hate, Insecure, Talking

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• I've won Satan's lottery.

  Christopher Moore

  Satan

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

  Dawn Johnsen

  Pregnancy, Drunk, Loser

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• If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.

  Michel Foucault

  Weekend, Order, People

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• I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

  Amy Bloom

  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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