Fortunate Quotes - Page 18

• I feel very fortunate to go surrounded by love. I'm proud of the life I lived.

  Brittany Maynard

  Emotional, Proud, Feels

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• I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

  Katie Couric

  Couple, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

  Isabel Paterson

  Betrayal, Men, Race

  "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson, (p. 292), 1943.

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• Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Escaping, Bedtime, Principal

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• You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Virtue, Virtuous

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• I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.

  Jorja Fox

  Dream, Grateful, Ambition

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• There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going hungry. Included among these millions are children who, due to malnourishment, are not developing to their full potential intellectually, emotionally or behaviorally. The fortunate must provide for the unfortunate.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Children, Epidemics, Land

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• If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

  Napoleon Hill

  Gratitude, Thinking, Slavery

  "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built".

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• Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Grateful, Sadness

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• Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

  Dai Vernon

  Believe, Moving, Magic

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• Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Memories, Recollection, Selective

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• Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Effort, Energy, Groups

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• I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I know what can trigger headaches and try to avoid it. I have short term memory problems, so I make a special effort to remember people and names. I have to work harder, but it’s important.

  Harry Carson

  Memories, Hard Work, Names

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• I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

  Duncan Sheik

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

  Duncan Sheik

  Want, Able, Get Away

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• We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

  Joe Dumars

  Smart, Player, Three

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• I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Wanted

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• I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me

  Matt Hardy

  Wish

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• I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

  Vince McMahon

  Real, Common Sense, Guy

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• Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

  Todd McFarlane

  Scratches

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• I've been pretty fortunate.

  Brett Favre

  "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

  Nolan Ryan

  Organization, Four, Feels

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• I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?

  Og Mandino

  Opportunity, Men, Departed

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.59, Bantam

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• I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

  Chandra Wilson

  Kids, Frustrated, Wish

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

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• I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Agency, Trying, Different

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