Fortunate Quotes - Page 6

• Anytime you've got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal, I think that takes it all. That's the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.

  Larry Bird

  Sports, Country, Team

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• I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way.

  Michelle Obama

  Husband, Way, Show Me

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• I feel as though I've been very fortunate in my career, which is not all that long, so far.

  Matt Lauria

  Careers, Long, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.

  Bob Saget

  People, Want, Penguins

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• In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy.

  David L. Bazelon

  Sight, Bags, Citizens

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• There are three goals for any comedian: to make a living as a comedian; I've been fortunate to do that. To make a name for yourself and to be famous would be great - because it would give me that freedom.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Names, Giving, Goal

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• I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Photography, Art, Tragedy

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• I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Photography, Loss, Emotional

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• I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew about scales, but I didn't think about chords. I was fortunate in that he lived right around the corner so I'd be at his house almost every day and he showed me about playing melodies over chords. After about three years, I could play some gigs. I worked with drummer Roy Brooks and other guys my age at that time, like trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer. Some of the older guys were Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes

  Charles McPherson

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.

  Dave Douglas

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "A Fireside Chat With Dave Douglas". All About Jazz interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. April 19, 2003.

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• I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  People, Honor, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

  McCoy Tyner

  Piano, Orchestra, Instruments

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• Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.

  David O. Russell

  Names, Joy, Doe

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• I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Careers, Nicknames, Dodge

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• I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

  Curtis Joseph

  Running, Brother, Golf

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• I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

  Darryl Worley

  Philosophy, Stranger, Those Less Fortunate

  Song: Those Less Fortunate Than I, Album: Hard Rain Don't Last, 2000

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• I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Years, Eight, People

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• I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Home, Heart, Land

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• When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Able, Enough, My Own

  "Set Visit: Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Eric Moro, www.ign.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Careers, Collaborators

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• Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Grateful, Mean

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• In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

  Trevor Nunn

  Integrity, Limits, Artistic

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• 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 don’t worry about gaining weight. I’m fortunate in that I’ve never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don’t eat enough.

  Alana Stewart

  Worry, People, Stressed

  "Alana Stewart: Actress And Former Model Talks Spirituality And Staying Vibrant At 67". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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