Fortunate Quotes - Page 8

• I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero some years back, and Bruce Johnson and I served on the board of the Surfrider Foundation here at home. Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

  Mike Love

  Mother, Home, Years

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do.

  Richard Flanagan

  Jobs, Grateful, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are fortunate to have such an esteemed filmmaker join the Marvel family. The talents Ryan [Coogler] showcased in his first two films easily made him our top choice to direct 'Black Panther.' Many fans have waited a long time to see Black Panther in his own film, and with Ryan we know we've found the perfect director to bring T'Challa's story to life.

  Kevin Feige

  Two, Long, Perfect

  "Ryan Coogler to direct Marvel's 'Black Panther'". news.marvel.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Fun, Believe, Passion

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

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• I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.

  Mary J. Miller

  I've Learned, Professors, Has Beens

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a product of state schools. I had a working-class family. We had no books. I was the first to go to college. But I didn't really think about it, or about making money. I was just going to be an artist, and I've been fortunate. I've never had to work for anybody nor have I had to write for money. Maybe that's another reason that I've been able to be productive. I haven't had to use my writing to make a living.

  T.C. Boyle

  Book, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

  David Brooks

  Block, Cutting, Thinking

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu’s election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

  Jill Sobule

  Sticks, Doomed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Kids suffering, with no opportunities for lack of having their basic human needs [met], like food, health, and education, but at the same time, [it] motivates me to keep fighting for them, for the ones less fortunate.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Kids, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Patricia Velasquez – Supermodel, Actor and Author". Interview with Monica Melsness, nicheandnook.com. October 3, 2015.

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• When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years, as my social and political consciousness was developing, to live at the epicentre of that dynamic, idealistic, and inspiring moment in U.S. political history, with its ethos of personal and civic responsibility, summed up so succinctly in his exhortation: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Father, Responsibility

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• Take hints from other women in the office. We are very fortunate to be in a generation where there are a lot of older women in the office. Take a look at what they're wearing.

  Sarah Lafleur

  Office, Generations, Looks

  "BYT Style Interview: Mémé LAFLEUR". Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

  Marianne Williamson

  Book, Capitalism, Has Beens

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.

  James Franco

  Jobs, Best Job, World

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable.

  John Petrucci

  Men, Gears, Way

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can.

  Andy Murray

  Giving, Important, I Can

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in television, miniseries, film - all of which are very, very different in the way they tell stories.

  Grant Bowler

  Careers, Different, Stories

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

  Robert Plant

  Want

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• I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.

  Oliver Harris

  Editing, Balance, Would Be

  Source: bigother.com

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• I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mean, Kids, Effort

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• [I'm] very fortunate and blessed person who still has a lot of living to do.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Blessed, Persons, Stills

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• I think that we're just fortunate that you have an experienced legislator: 26 years of fighting for our issues in line. I mean, there's nobody, there's no man, nor woman that is being mentioned that has the legislative experience that she has and the passion in her heart for advancing the cause of women.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Passion, Heart, Mean

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

  Lauren Bowles

  Writing, Creative, Gardening

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• I chose to enter a profession that is not easy. To be able to say that I am doing what I love for a living - man, it isn't work. I cannot begin to describe how fortunate I am.

  Jonathan Sadowski

  Men, Able, Easy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.

  Jeremy Jones

  Healthy, Trying, Advantage

  "Jeremy Jones and Protect Our Winters". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Thinking, Black, Wish

  Source: www.theroot.com

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