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My father used to have an expression: 'It's a lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do, and thinks it still matters.' – Joe Biden	added by anonymous 6 months ago
We were very very lucky children! I pray that our future generations have as much fun, in whatever way! We should at least try to leave enough water, greenery, forests .. simple means of human sustenance .. if for no other reason but to repay Nature's debt on all of us..who enjoyed nature's charity to the hilt selfishly..when it was meant for ALL human beings including children of the future .. – Rooma Mehra	added by karlhartmann_1 11 months ago
I can’t even express how disappointing it was that it was another country’s military and embassy who got us out and we were just lucky enough to be a part of that group, to have heard about it and gotten there in time, i mean if we hadn’t, who knows? It bothers me because they say, ‘Oh it’s too dangerous, we can’t get there,’ but all these other countries are getting there and getting their people out? So I don’t understand that. – Deana Welker	Found on CNN 11 months ago
A friend said once, ‘If you’re an adult, you’ve already spent the most amount of time with your parents that you ever will,’ and I feel really lucky that I get to spend so much time with him now. encyclopedia. – Emily Petterson	Found on CNN 11 months ago
When we first flew, we thought we would be incredibly lucky to eke out five flights, we have exceeded our expected cumulative flight time since our technology demonstration wrapped by 1,250% and expected distance flown by 2,214%. – Teddy Tzanetos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the town was very lucky … the town is still here. – Port Hedland mayor Peter Carter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m one of the very lucky and blessed cases, there are so many situations where I’m just in the right place at the right time, or I met someone that works on concussions outside of the network of help that they were providing, and that person was able to help me tremendously. – Helen Maroulis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was really manageable – we felt very lucky how successfully we navigated long distance. – Patricia Toro It	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As unlucky as he is to have such a tragic injury, he is so lucky that the injuries are where they are. – Christopher Vincent	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s been another rare down year for the planet’s richest people, nearly half the list is poorer than they were 12 months ago, but a lucky few are billions — or even tens of billions — of dollars richer. – Chase Peterson-Withorn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re really lucky because my wife and I, we both work at home, it’s not such a big impact in terms of we have to find child care and stuff like that, which some of our friends do have to do. – Wade Armstrong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc. – Venus Herrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we’ve all been in the position where we second-guess ourselves about whether or not we deserve something. Let me tell you as a musical theatre geek who really can’s sing I’ve gotten part after part in high school and community shows while my female friends with actual great singing voices get practically nothing. The gender balance and community theater is way off so i got part after part while my friends maybe got one big role every three years if they’re lucky. Iv’e had at least a named role in every show I’ve ever been in. Some girls I’ve met have never had a named role and i hear how good thier voices are and I just want to say sorry. I want to give them my part somehow because I know they’d sing it better. – Schaffrillas Productions	added by Jerribeck034 1 year ago
We put our money where our mouth is, we are lucky. We’re a large zoo with a good income that can devote resources to( conservation), and we are effective in doing so. – Mark Brayshaw	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I achieved a dream I had been hoping for so long, it’s a dream for any player, very few people can achieve that and I was lucky enough to do so. – Lionel Messi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
So many people put the spotlight on ‘how lucky I was to work with this team’ but they miss out on giving credit to themselves, toot your horn. – Aneri Desai	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It has been a tough year, but at the same time, I feel lucky and blessed, i am thankful she is still with us when other families may not have been so lucky. That she even had a chance at recovery when the first week in the hospital seemed so dim. – Jessica Pegula	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I feel lucky, as writing and selling books gives me an additional income stream. If not for that, I would’ve stayed stuck in the same wage loop, that’s why I was able to survive. – Hideya Tokiyoshi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Their lucky colors are silver and blue, and their lucky place is to their north. – Thierry Chow	Found on CNN 1 year ago
All we want is justice. We want this to go to trial and it doesn’t seem like this will happen anytime soon given what happened today, at the same time, we have been so lucky to have so much support internationally, everywhere, and I think that has forced the prosecution of this court to at least recognize the mistakes made and at least to some extent there has been less injustice. – Sean Binder	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of our breakthroughs was to realize that if you use this particular set of three pluripotent stem cells, the mice don’t go back to age zero, which would cause cancer or worse, instead, the cells go back to between 50% and 75% of the original age, and they stop and don’t get any younger, which is lucky. How the cells know to do that, we don’t yet understand. – David Sinclair	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One good day does not equal two. One day, I allowed myself to indulge in a culinary delight that has been known to relentlessly create havoc to my bio rhythms and public behavior. Through the course of the day and evening, for once, I had a wonderful day. I was overjoyed and pleased, so the next day I thought my luck had changed and I should have another day at it because my concerns were of a past not too long ago. Well, sure enough, I fell flat on my face and told myself to remember that some good days are good days that you can build your hopes on and relieve a small fragment of the burdens we bare. But one good day does not equal two. Be lucky for the one good day and don't count on it happening again. Intended for personal weaknesses, not for greater good that can come too pass. – Ralph McLaurin	added by rm.79514 1 year ago
I try not to let it get to me because I obviously understand that I'm in such a lucky position, a lot of people [ in a similar position ] have proven themselves over the years, so I've got to keep going and make good work. – Maude Apatow	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now I'm helping more than 200 families, i encourage the people: 'I had the same problem, but you are lucky. I can help you. You are not alone.'. – Mahmood Omid	Found on CNN 1 year ago

My father used to have an expression: 'It's a lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

– Joe Biden

added by anonymous
6 months ago

We were very very lucky children! I pray that our future generations have as much fun, in whatever way! We should at least try to leave enough water, greenery, forests .. simple means of human sustenance .. if for no other reason but to repay Nature's debt on all of us..who enjoyed nature's charity to the hilt selfishly..when it was meant for ALL human beings including children of the future ..

– Rooma Mehra

added by karlhartmann_1
11 months ago

I can’t even express how disappointing it was that it was another country’s military and embassy who got us out and we were just lucky enough to be a part of that group, to have heard about it and gotten there in time, i mean if we hadn’t, who knows? It bothers me because they say, ‘Oh it’s too dangerous, we can’t get there,’ but all these other countries are getting there and getting their people out? So I don’t understand that.

– Deana Welker

Found on CNN
11 months ago

A friend said once, ‘If you’re an adult, you’ve already spent the most amount of time with your parents that you ever will,’ and I feel really lucky that I get to spend so much time with him now. encyclopedia.

– Emily Petterson

Found on CNN
11 months ago

When we first flew, we thought we would be incredibly lucky to eke out five flights, we have exceeded our expected cumulative flight time since our technology demonstration wrapped by 1,250% and expected distance flown by 2,214%.

– Teddy Tzanetos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the town was very lucky … the town is still here.

– Port Hedland mayor Peter Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m one of the very lucky and blessed cases, there are so many situations where I’m just in the right place at the right time, or I met someone that works on concussions outside of the network of help that they were providing, and that person was able to help me tremendously.

– Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was really manageable – we felt very lucky how successfully we navigated long distance.

– Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As unlucky as he is to have such a tragic injury, he is so lucky that the injuries are where they are.

– Christopher Vincent

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s been another rare down year for the planet’s richest people, nearly half the list is poorer than they were 12 months ago, but a lucky few are billions — or even tens of billions — of dollars richer.

– Chase Peterson-Withorn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re really lucky because my wife and I, we both work at home, it’s not such a big impact in terms of we have to find child care and stuff like that, which some of our friends do have to do.

– Wade Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc.

– Venus Herrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we’ve all been in the position where we second-guess ourselves about whether or not we deserve something. Let me tell you as a musical theatre geek who really can’s sing I’ve gotten part after part in high school and community shows while my female friends with actual great singing voices get practically nothing. The gender balance and community theater is way off so i got part after part while my friends maybe got one big role every three years if they’re lucky. Iv’e had at least a named role in every show I’ve ever been in. Some girls I’ve met have never had a named role and i hear how good thier voices are and I just want to say sorry. I want to give them my part somehow because I know they’d sing it better.

– Schaffrillas Productions

added by Jerribeck034
1 year ago

We put our money where our mouth is, we are lucky. We’re a large zoo with a good income that can devote resources to( conservation), and we are effective in doing so.

– Mark Brayshaw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I achieved a dream I had been hoping for so long, it’s a dream for any player, very few people can achieve that and I was lucky enough to do so.

– Lionel Messi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So many people put the spotlight on ‘how lucky I was to work with this team’ but they miss out on giving credit to themselves, toot your horn.

– Aneri Desai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It has been a tough year, but at the same time, I feel lucky and blessed, i am thankful she is still with us when other families may not have been so lucky. That she even had a chance at recovery when the first week in the hospital seemed so dim.

– Jessica Pegula

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I feel lucky, as writing and selling books gives me an additional income stream. If not for that, I would’ve stayed stuck in the same wage loop, that’s why I was able to survive.

– Hideya Tokiyoshi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Their lucky colors are silver and blue, and their lucky place is to their north.

– Thierry Chow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All we want is justice. We want this to go to trial and it doesn’t seem like this will happen anytime soon given what happened today, at the same time, we have been so lucky to have so much support internationally, everywhere, and I think that has forced the prosecution of this court to at least recognize the mistakes made and at least to some extent there has been less injustice.

– Sean Binder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of our breakthroughs was to realize that if you use this particular set of three pluripotent stem cells, the mice don’t go back to age zero, which would cause cancer or worse, instead, the cells go back to between 50% and 75% of the original age, and they stop and don’t get any younger, which is lucky. How the cells know to do that, we don’t yet understand.

– David Sinclair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One good day does not equal two. One day, I allowed myself to indulge in a culinary delight that has been known to relentlessly create havoc to my bio rhythms and public behavior. Through the course of the day and evening, for once, I had a wonderful day. I was overjoyed and pleased, so the next day I thought my luck had changed and I should have another day at it because my concerns were of a past not too long ago. Well, sure enough, I fell flat on my face and told myself to remember that some good days are good days that you can build your hopes on and relieve a small fragment of the burdens we bare. But one good day does not equal two. Be lucky for the one good day and don't count on it happening again. Intended for personal weaknesses, not for greater good that can come too pass.

– Ralph McLaurin

added by rm.79514
1 year ago

I try not to let it get to me because I obviously understand that I'm in such a lucky position, a lot of people [ in a similar position ] have proven themselves over the years, so I've got to keep going and make good work.

– Maude Apatow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now I'm helping more than 200 families, i encourage the people: 'I had the same problem, but you are lucky. I can help you. You are not alone.'.

– Mahmood Omid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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