Top 60 Fluke Quotes

Nothing’s by fluke and nothing’s been given to me.

When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they’re hurting the most are not the economically powerful ones. They’re not Sandra Fluke. They’re not Lena Dunham, who conservatives hate more than anybody. They’re hurting low-earning single mothers.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

I wasn’t campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you’ve got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Landing on ‘Morning Joe’ wasn’t a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

The Apollo generation wasn’t a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on something and goes for it. We can do it again, do it better, and do it for keeps this time. But we must decide: Will America, as a nation, support the settlement of space?

I just want to redeem myself and show the world that… it wasn’t a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.

I think our first record was a fluke, really. The fact that it went platinum and all that, it was all due to one video and the timing being just right.

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it’s a fluke, that I’ll never be able to do it again.

I was 19. ‘The One And Only’ was my first record. It went to No. 1 and I was this big star. I thought that was what happened when you released records. Of course that is not normal. It’s a great record and I’m still really proud of it but I think it was a bit of a fluke.

I was 19. ‘The One And Only’ was my first record. It went to No. 1 and I was this big star. I thought that was what happened when you released records. Of course that is not normal. It’s a great record and I’m still really proud of it but I think it was a bit of a fluke.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it’s getting.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.

We haven’t yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I’d try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I’m not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I’m different from the people who dreamed about it.

I’m often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The ‘Devil in the White City’ was a fluke.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college – it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.

My main memory of ‘Soft Sounds’ was that I was so convinced that ‘Psychopomp’ was this fluke – I had this real pressure of avoiding the sophomore slump.

Show business is – you’re there by somebody’s fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you’re fine. I’d do anything. There’s so much I want to do.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

‘The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn’t until ten years later that I went, ‘Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.’

Album 1 is proving that you’re worth listening to, album 2 is proving that it wasn’t a fluke, and album 3 is the most authentic thing I’ve ever done.

When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they’re hurting the most are not the economically powerful ones. They’re not Sandra Fluke. They’re not Lena Dunham, who conservatives hate more than anybody. They’re hurting low-earning single mothers.

Album 1 is proving that you’re worth listening to, album 2 is proving that it wasn’t a fluke, and album 3 is the most authentic thing I’ve ever done.

‘Lady Macbeth’ is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of ‘The Falling’ was not necessarily a fluke.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

I’m only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it’s all just been a massive fluke.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

Everything I’ve ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Everything I’ve ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Like anyone who records music or writes a song, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t that be cool if someday I were able to do this for a living?’ But it was such a fluke, and it really all took me by surprise and I just held on for dear life. I really wasn’t prepared. I really went into it naively with no experience.

Nothing’s by fluke and nothing’s been given to me.

In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ my first job, which was a complete fluke.

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I’m different from the people who dreamed about it.

I just want to redeem myself and show the world that… it wasn’t a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.

I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college – it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.

We’re no good at holidays, the wife and I. We just don’t have the knack. We had one good one, early on, but that was a fluke. Everything since then has been a nightmare.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That’s why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.

I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That’s why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.

‘Imposter Syndrome’ is the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that one does not feel at home in. It is when you feel like you or your work is a fluke and that you’re a dwarf amongst giants. Many of us have this, especially when we’re in some sort of creative industry.

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I’d show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn’t until ten years later that I went, ‘Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.’

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

I’m only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it’s all just been a massive fluke.

Like anyone who records music or writes a song, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t that be cool if someday I were able to do this for a living?’ But it was such a fluke, and it really all took me by surprise and I just held on for dear life. I really wasn’t prepared. I really went into it naively with no experience.

The Apollo generation wasn’t a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on something and goes for it. We can do it again, do it better, and do it for keeps this time. But we must decide: Will America, as a nation, support the settlement of space?

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.