I was fortunate enough to see and handle and take in everything I could while I was playing.
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
I’ve been extraordinarily fortunate that I’ve been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don’t believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.
My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.
I’ve been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.
I learned a lot doing ‘Wolverine,’ and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.
Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?
I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them – they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
I’ve had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.
We’re fortunate enough to live on a planet that’s bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that’s stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
I’ve been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.
I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.
The draft is a crapshoot, so I’ve been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about me, so I got off to a good start.
I’ve been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.
I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
I’ve played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I’ve been fortunate enough to play with them, a who’s who. All of those guys, I’ve been fortunate enough to have performed with.
I love reading. I’m fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.
Presenting football is something that I love to do. I’m very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC’s flagship shows.
When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey.
I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
I’m pretty fortunate that my beard – if I shave it off, I look like a completely different person. My face, it transforms. I mean, I have a weird face! My eyes are really deep and sunken. My son tells me, ‘You don’t have any eyebrows.’
I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
I’m very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I’m going to happily continue.
The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
I’ve been very fortunate to have the opportunity to work on wonderful shows.
I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I’m very fortunate that I’ve been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
God has given me so much that I feel I must give to those who are less fortunate. I don’t do it to be in anyone’s good graces.
I think what’s so interesting for me is the different roles that I play. I love doing the research, and I love – I feel fortunate in the sense that I get to explore many different worlds, of things that I may not really get to learn a lot about.
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I’m very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.
I embrace old age. Look, I’m never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I’ve learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I’m very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
I did a show called ‘Wonderland’ a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks – I’m talking 13-15 hours a day – with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for ‘Durham County.’
I’m already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren’t in the harbor.
If a man’s free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action – his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world – is not in such a fortunate condition.
I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country.
In my case it was a sustained effort. I was fortunate to have the backing of my parents to start off with and towards the Beijing Olympics the Mittal Champions Trust came into the picture and they helped me a lot.
It’s not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about.
I didn’t inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I’m crazy fortunate.
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.
We’re real fortunate to have such a unique cast.
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to ‘Non-Cooperative Games,’ also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.
Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street.
The devotion of the BVB Army, with its very big online presence, is amazing. We’ve been fortunate from the very beginning. It was something that was really able to spur on our career.
American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn’t have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be.
I’ve been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing ‘Yellowstone’ and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.
I’m very fortunate to work with a great group of guys that are great coaches, great motivators, excited about what they do, have a lot of enthusiasm and are excellent coaches.
I consider myself a fortunate working actor, but I really work at it all the time. If I have a couple of weeks off, I’m taking class. You never stop. I started when I was 10 years old in Cleveland, and I’ve never stopped working my butt off.
Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.
