Fortunate Quotes - Page 38

• I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Stories, Study, Talent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.

  Nikki Sixx

  Crazy, Fall, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Lying, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

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• The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Self, Cities

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.55, tredition

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• The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length.

  John Dos Passos

  Civilization, America, People

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• But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

  Herodotus

  Change, Men, Doe

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• O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after
  childbirth!
  O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

  Louise Bogan

  Wife, Feelings, Lucky

  Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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• I know that I've been blessed in many ways, and I was fortunate enough to travel the world and meet a lot of interesting people. But I never felt that the modeling career was all that important.

  Kathy Ireland

  Blessed, Careers, Interesting

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• I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Retirement, Jobs, Thinking

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• I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Leadership, Wisdom, Fashion

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• I feel unbelievably fortunate. How many people get to do what they always wanted to do and do well with it and continue to be surprised and see amazing places and meet amazing people?

  Michael Kors

  People, Amazing Places, Feels

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  My Best Friend, Married, Happened

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• It's weird as actors because I mean we're fortunate in the group of people who have to spend time away from their families. There are men and women serving overseas who certainly have it a lot harder than we do, and there are jobs that take people away from the families, and that's a reality with some jobs that you have. One thing that's really difficult I find is the transition, because not only do you have to learn how to transition to living on your own again, there's a transition that happens learning how to live with somebody again.

  Chris Pratt

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter. I've always enjoyed the process and always enjoyed working more really than the end result of what it achieves. I'm more interested in doing the work.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Interesting, Achieve, Ends

  "Neil Patrick Harris The Smurfs 3D Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Over the years, I have been fortunate to get to play a lot of really kick-ass girls.

  Summer Glau

  Girl, Years, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm very fortunate that I get asked to do very different kinds of roles and I realize how much I enjoy that. I enjoy the challenge of transformation. There are actors who play one character, or a certain kind of character, the whole of their lives. I really relish the opportunity to have the challenge to totally transform.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Opportunity, Play

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.

  Patty Andrews

  Singing

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• My beloved brothers and sisters, to those of you who have been blessed by the gospel for many years because you were fortunate enough to find it early, to those of you who have come to the gospel by stages and phases later, and to those of you-members and not yet members-who may still be hanging back, to each of you, one and all, I testify of the renewing power of God’s love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Brother, Blessed, Years

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• A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Art, Growing Up, Moving

  Interview with Bob Nickas, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2011.

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• The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Children, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Childhood, Happy Childhood

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• Don't let your heart depend on things
  That ornament life in a fleeting way!
  He who possesses, let him learn to lose,
  He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Pain, Heart, Ornaments

  "The Bride of Messina" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. iv, 1803.

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• What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.

  Anna Brackett

  Knowledge, Learning, Knowing

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• Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving, Way, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.183, Penguin

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• Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophy, Reflection, Thoughtful

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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