Fortunate Quotes - Page 12

• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  Oliver Platt

  Mean, Would Be, Way

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• I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

  Johnny Ramone

  Careers

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• I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Guy, Heavyweights

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• I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there’s usually something good at the end.

  Ben Silbermann

  Team, Optimistic, Hard Times

  "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Thinking, Diversity, People

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

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• I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

  Shepard Smith

  Enough, Poor

  "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.

  Aaron Tveit

  Awards, Should Have, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

  Charlize Theron

  Nice, Want, Very Nice

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• I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Believe, Successful, People

  Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?

  Jon Voight

  Knows, Can Do

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• I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

  Jack Wagner

  Dream, Careers, Energy

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

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• Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

  Frank McKinney

  Stay Strong, Blessed, Succeed

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• If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.

  Timothy Geithner

  Senior, Cutting, Class

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• A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Men, Inferiority

  "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

  Dori Berinstein

  Growing Up, Taken, Ucla

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.

  Andrew Strauss

  Play, Proud, Eras

  "Andrew Strauss retires from all forms of cricket - as it happened" by Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2012.

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• One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Culture, Psychedelic

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• I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

  Tom Ford

  Pride, Names, Ideas

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.

  Dallas Roberts

  Writing, Ideas, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad script not to be financed for the next one. I'm assured at least of the next one, but you're always [only] as good as your last film. I think it's true for anyone.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Writing, Thinking, Canada

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm fortunate because people can't put a label on me, which I embrace wholeheartedly.

  Anthony Head

  People, Labels, Embrace

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Song, Tragedy

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• It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

  Rashida Jones

  Actors, Fortunate Life, Ifs

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• I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...

  Twyla Tharp

  Moving, Men, Roles

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I feel so fortunate to be one of the lucky ones who is so grateful and appreciative to know such great synonyms for thankful.

  Demetri Martin

  Grateful, Lucky, Appreciative

  Twitter post from Jun 01, 2011

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