Quotes with fortunately

  • Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

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  • Allen Ginsberg Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Russell Baker People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught respect, and you were taught to be humble. That has a lot to do with how I am now, because I'm still scared of my dad.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
    As quoted in Garlic and Oil : Food and Politics in Italy
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Bill Camp Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.
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  • Bria Skonberg Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Bill Nunn Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first jobs I had was in a federally-funded program where I taught drama to young people.
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  • Arundhati Roy I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Aaron Carter I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bill Hybels If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Carson My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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