Quotes with lottery-ticket

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  • Caroll Spinney Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Candice S. Miller Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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  • Bill Dedman A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Adam Smith Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • James Baldwin After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Lord George Byron All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Doug Horton Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Henry Kissinger Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Aaron C. Brown From the lottery to raise the funds for the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 to the lottery used to pay the interest on Dutch loans to the United States during the Revolutionary War, the development of the United States was funded by gambling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Max Lerner Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Queen Victoria I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Bill Flores Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that was rounded out the ticket in many ways.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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