Lucky Quotes - Page 40

• The fact is that we wouldn't have found out about Manzanar except in our story-telling because it was really never told in the American history books when we attended school. So we were very, very lucky to have that part of history told.

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Book, School, American History

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.

  Jamie Lidell

  People, Giving, Enjoy

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• I'm lucky - I don't feel any pressure.

  Don McCullin

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• Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how to program a computer, in fact, by reading a book. I used to write down programs in a notebook and a few years later when we were able to buy a computer, I typed in my programs to see if they worked. They did. I was lucky.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Notebook, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never write quite as freely again. You're aware, from that point onward, of the kinds of things critics might say about it. You're aware of the kinds of things your publishers might like and dislike about it. You're half-aware of marketing strategies - of all the stuff around the book. Whereas with your very first piece of fiction, if you're lucky, those things barely occur to you at all.

  Nick Laird

  Grateful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be. They'd actually hoped that I might be an artist, and I was lucky again to grow up with people who delighted in making things: my father wove baskets and painted furniture and carved wood figures; my mother quilted and embroidered and sewed.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• There's no reason to tweet when you are in the midst of a great moment; they are few and far between. So pay attention to it, as you probably won't see it again. You can always tweet later, if you're lucky enough to be part of history and you think 140 characters can do credit to someone like Martin Luther King or to the speech he made that day.

  Lewis Black

  Character, Thinking, Attention

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• I was friends with Salvador Dalí until the day he died. Lucky me. I can't say why. I didn't live to be noticed, I lived to enjoy the excitement of doing right that day, and I knew I was doing it right when they would have me back. That was the thrill for me. I yearned to be validated because my mother was stern and I never did much right, that's how I perceived it.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Mother, Excitement, Enjoy

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• I feel lucky. I do love it, mostly. At college I had it in my heart that I wanted to be a writer but I didn't want to tell anyone about it. Then I graduated and became a bartender in Philadelphia, writing during the day. I was the worst bartender in the world.

  Lauren Groff

  Writing, Heart, College

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• One thing I've always been really proud of about our band is that we've done what we wanted to do, what we enjoy doing, and we've been really lucky that people have responded to it the way that they have. As long as we continue to really enjoy what we do and make decisions with integrity, I'm hoping people continue to respond to that.

  Tad Kubler

  Integrity, Long, People

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• I don't think of myself as having a particular role. I'm lucky enough to be able to make my living essentially by expressing my opinions. But, you know, I think the world would manage quite well if I weren't doing it.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Thinking, World, Opinion

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• I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

  Cat Deeley

  School, Squares, Exam

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• I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Art, Women, Thinking

  Katharine Hepburn (1991). “Me: stories of my life”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, People, Levels

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

  Kid Rock

  Best Friend, Cat, Good Friend

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Feb 29, 2016

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• There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.

  Kid Rock

  Example, World, Born

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• I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Baseball, Play, Singers

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• I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Thinking, Black

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• The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Nature, Stars

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• Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Husband, Thinking, Lucky Charms

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• As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Facts, Awareness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Most people don't get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to pay for this one thing. This relationship is an impulse buy, and you'll figure out if it's worth it later.

  Sloane Crosley

  Break Up, Crush, Mean

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.120, Penguin

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• A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287

  Elise Broach

  Art, Attention, Sparks

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• We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

  Paullina Simons

  Loneliness, World, Moments

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• I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sleep, Night, Men

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.885, Wordsworth Editions

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