Lucky Quotes - Page 26

• There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

  Joe Bastianich

  Chicago, Hawaii, World

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• I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.

  Bob Hope

  Beautiful, Girl, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.

  Elton John

  Sex, Alcohol, Drug

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

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• I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Kids, Names

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• I think all gay guys should get married. I think they should have to get married. They should have to adopt kids because, actually, I'm getting tired of their happy-go-lucky lifestyle. I've had it with them being all happy and in shape. I could look good in denim short shorts and combat boots, too, if I had all day to do leg presses at the gym.

  Greg Giraldo

  Tired, Kids, Gay

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• You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

  John Major

  Government, Coalitions, My Own

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• A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Opportunity, Wish, Done

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• I got very lucky to work with Wes Craven, very early on in my career, and continued to work with Wes for almost 19 years. I learned so much from him, and about his sense of story and his sense of horror, and that was great to be a part of.

  Patrick Lussier

  Years, Careers, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Consistent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Auditions, Process, So Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Singing, Looks

  "Country singer Taylor Swift takes 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.metro.us. May 28, 2009.

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• I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Diaries, So Lucky

  "Q&A: Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.

  Teju Cole

  America, People, Hopeful

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that. Some women have all of this to do, too. And they manage and they live longer. How we do that, I don't know.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Running, Real, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been really lucky. People have been nice to me on the internet. That's the reason why I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Nice, People, Reason Why

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.

  Linda Blair

  Powerful, Mean, People

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I am about life. I surround myself with beautiful things. I work hard to have a better life. This job helps me achieve that through the people I meet. I'm lucky - not to have been a cover girl - but to have been able to meet all these people, to live these adventures and travel so comfortably. But despite that, it's still difficult. Nothing comes easily. Everything I've earned is down to me, and no one else.

  Lea Seydoux

  Beautiful, Girl, Jobs

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• I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Photography, War, Simple

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• I don't care about the weight. You know, I'm lucky; I'm one of those people - I can eat donuts, whatever, and I just get fat.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Weight, Care

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• There’s a need to perfect things in a writers’ room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It’s a struggle. It depends on your personality. Some people love working with a writing staff. I had a great writing staff on Lucky Louie, but it sometimes felt like Congress or something.

  Louis C. K.

  Fun, Struggle, Writing

  "Writing Comedy – Interview with Louis C.K". Interview with Dan Calvisi, actfourscreenplays.com. July 16, 2010.

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• My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run

  Amanda Marshall

  Running, Baby, Horse

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• We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both the one we create as humans and the one we are lucky enough to inhabit as a species.

  Michael Light

  Our World, Looks, Enough

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• Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Husband, Home

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• I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.

  Jamie Bamber

  Morning, Jobs, Looks

  "Jamie Bamber Talks MONDAY MORNINGS, Working with David E. Kelley & Dr. Sanjay Gupta, His Thoughts on the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Finale, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Country, Team, Player

  "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World’s Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.

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