Lottery Quotes - Page 3

• I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

  Dennis Lehane

  Home, Kids, Catholic

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• I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

  Joey Comeau

  Numbers, Choices, Esp

  "Overqualified". Book by Joey Comeau, 2009.

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• Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

  Ian Mckellen

  Falling In Love, Children, Winning

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• Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Firsts, Tickets, Birth

  Jeffrey Archer (2014). “Be Careful What You Wish For”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, Unhappy Person, Suffering

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK

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• If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Retirement, Government, Ideas

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• If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

  John Dryden

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

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• The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Games, Majority, Sitting

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• If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

  John Major

  Sports, Art, Government

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• Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

  Francis Beaumont

  Running, Soul, Doubt

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.433

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• Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.

  Lenny Bruce

  Country, Order, Boss

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts.

  Rick Hoffman

  Three, Pilots, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?

  Mike Royko

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• No, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.

  R. J. Palacio

  Girl, Kids, Bird

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• I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

  Michael Finley

  Regret, People, Coming Out

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• Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

  James Cook

  Winning, Luck, May

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• I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.

  Nando Parrado

  Good Life, Thinking, Winning

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• I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

  Mario Lemieux

  Thinking, Changed, Turns

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• I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

  Robert Breault

  Long Ago, Sunrise, Lucky

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• Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

  Clarissa Dickson Wright

  Writing, Needs, Ifs

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• The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction.

  John Pappas

  Horse, Player, Skills

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• An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

  Peter Lynch

  Keys, Important, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Tickets, Desperation, Lottery Ticket

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• There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

  James Payn

  Hands, Literature, Competence

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• ...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

  Joanne Harris

  Money, Jobs, Work

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