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“I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.”

Ifs Years Two School Given Religious Streets Special Models Connections Two Years Instruction Pupils Forts

Author:Edmund Barton

“I was for years in the yellow period, you know.”

Knows Years Periods Yellow

Author:Josef Albers

“I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.”

Giving Trying Hard Artist My Own Deals Company Records Giving Up Ceo Businessman Trying Hard Great Businessman

Author:Jay-Z

“I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.”

Source: The Fall of the House of Usher

“I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.”

Steps Grades Forks Seventh Grade Dance Steps Cotillion

Author:Chris Black

“I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.”

Men Age Young Grows Growing Up Young Man Young Age

Author:Ray Rice

“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”

Years Children Young Order Birthday

Author:Mary Pickford

“I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.”

Art Two Able Decision Two Things Art And Music

Author:Ewan McGregor

“I was forced to masturbate in front of teammates”

Fronts Teammate

Author:David Beckham

“I was forced to pick her as my chosen, but she continues to choose me every day. And that is what I call heaven. Because life without her wold be hell.”

Heaven Hell Chosen

Author:Shantel Tessier

Source: The Ritual

“I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.”

People Thinking Believe Religion Realizing Religious Honest Doctrine Sincere Divergent Honest People

Author:Carl Rogers

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.”

“I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.”

Men Humans Real Country Feelings Spirit Desire Belief Religious Party Race Seeing Taught Universal Foundation Errors Charity Human Race Colour Abandon Replaced Sects Ardent

Author:Robert Owen

Source: The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence

“I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.”

People Way Real Problem School Names Sports Laughing Rounds Hated Real Problems Dump Preps Fooling Around Funny Name

Author:Alain de Botton

“I was forever changed by my experience on "Once and Again." All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.”

Shows Forever Changed Connections Deep Connections

Author:Susanna Thompson

“I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.”

Two Artist Forget Creative Pieces Paper Staring Diverse Canvas

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.”

Way Long Childhood Forgiving Including Saved Heal Long Ago Forgiven Healed

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.”

Want Giving I Can Sports Plans Stuck

Author:Gabriela Sabatini

“I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.”

Young Actors Responsibility Wonderful Fortunate Young Actors

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I was fortunate enough not to grow up in Hollywood, so I feel that was a blessing. Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy. My parents were smart to keep my brother and I away from that nonsense. I do live in the LA area now, but I keep my balance by hiking in the mountains with my dogs and taking trail rides every week on my horse.”

“I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.”

Enough Birth Citizens Prove Fortunate Prove It American Citizens Certificates Birth Certificate

Author:Raul Labrador

“I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.”

Trying Kind Said Different Enough Stories Happens Streets Occasions Fortunate Agency

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.”

Enough Term Simple Raised Fortunate Very Romantic

Author:Hugh Hefner

“I was fortunate enough to coach the US Olympic team in Australia. The parks were full at all times. How can they take away a sport like that?”

Enough Team Coaches Fortunate Australia

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years. There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back. They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.”

Enough Home Circumstances

Author:Adrian Matejka

“I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.”

Enough Youth Fortunate Rambling

Author:David Mamet

“I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.”

Made Enough Accepting Who I Am Fortunate Upbringing

Author:Peter Dinklage

“I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.”

World Way Enough Values Sports Teach Team Building Skills Baseball Fortunate Relative Translate Gifted Relatable Team Building

Author:Willie Wilson

“I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.”

Humans Has Beens Enough Bigs Able Certain Views Race Racism Aspect Raised Fortunate Big Questions

Author:Sidney Poitier

“I was fortunate enough to have gone through the major label process and kind of have the inside scoop on some things, some information I wouldn't have normally had. To go from a major to an independent, I don't think it's an easy transition.”

Thinking Kind Enough Easy Process Gone Information Majors Independent Labels Fortunate Transition

Author:Joe Budden

“I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.”

Enough Dream Energy Careers Changed Fortunate Hook 80s Hook Up

Author:Jack Wagner

“I was fortunate enough to never really be bullied. Maybe one time in middle school, but it was my fault. I had said something to someone, and they waited for me outside for a month until finally I put my dukes up and ran out. It was completely my fault.”

Said Enough School Middle Months Faults Fortunate Ran One Time Bullied Dukes Middle School

Author:Chris Zylka

“I was fortunate enough to take classes with Mel Powell at Yale University as well as a semester with Sam Adler at the Eastman School of Music. From Mel I learned to appreciate improvisatory ingenuity and from Sam rhythmic athleticism.”

Enough School Appreciate Ingenuity Semester

Author:Barbara Harbach

“I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.”

World Enough Beautiful Around The World Fortunate Memorable Australia Astonishing Beautiful Places Memorable Experiences

Author:Karolina Kurkova

“I was fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl before retiring, and in fact I retired immediately after winning the Super Bowl. I went out on top, and intend to come out of the Guinness Pro Challenge on top, too.”

Enough Facts Winning Challenges Fortunate Retiring Bowls Retired Super Bowl Guinness

Author:Jerome Bettis

“I was fortunate enough to work at the peak of the great golden age of musicals. And then for awhile, I think they were being advanced in different ways. Andrew Lloyd-Webber brought the rock beat to musicals; people tried different things. The joy of musicals is that there is no perfect recipe; it is what you throw into it.”

People Thinking Way Different Enough Age Joy Perfect Rocks Beats Golden Fortunate Different Ways Different Things Recipes Andrew Golden Age

Author:Julie Andrews

“I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.”

Men Enough Emotional Directors Brilliant Fortunate Brilliant Ideas

Author:Gene Tierney

“I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.”

People Enough Beautiful Three Next Born Space Wonderful Building Ready Genius Flight Desert Fortunate Prize Spaceships Weird People Mojave

Author:Richard Branson

“I was fortunate I had uncovered the protein intolerance before I became too sick to research it. I only uncovered it so quickly because it had coincided with research I was doing on hypoxic kidney damage and I was aware of the link to protein in urine. Had I gone back into a state of permanent chronic fatigue, I would have needed to move in with my parents.”

Damage Intolerance Fatigue Protein Aware Hypoxic Urine Link Kidney

Author:Steven Magee

Source: Magee’s Disease

“I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.”

Art Degrees Majors University Fortunate Canada Minors Programmes Liberal Arts Arts Degrees

Author:O.R. Melling

“I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".”

Two Lasts Film Wise Century Fortunate Dove Lonesome Lonesome Dove

Author:Robert Duvall

“I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.”

People Thinking World Way Important Eye Born Comfort My Friends Like Me Fortunate Relief Neighborhood

Author:Grace Paley

“I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.”

People Knows Years Different Stories Used Five Week Six Eight Newspapers Fortunate Different Things Different Peoples

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.”

“I was fortunate to be a teenager in the nineteen eighties. Back then we had romance, even if it was only in our minds and not real. We had Hollywood, the Oscars, real movie stars, famous authors, and the Olympics. Now, of course, we know that was all just a façade.”

Romance Hollywood Olympics Oscars Celebrities 1980s Secret Societies Fake World Movie Stars Nineteen Eighties

Author:Jack Freestone

“I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train, how to work and how to prepare myself for a game. They gave me so much, and I saw the passion they had for the game and for teaching it. What I learned from them led me to want to become a teacher and coach.”

Want Passion Games Saws Teacher Teaching Taught Couple Wings Train Coaches Fortunate

Author:Kirk Ferentz

“I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.”

Art Certain Scene Band Connected Genre Fortunate Pioneers Genres Of Music

Author:Arik Roper

“I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.”

Years Shows Successful Television Insight Eight Mediums Fortunate Fascinating Terrific Nbc

Author:Will McDonough

“I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.”

Wanted Fortunate

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.”

Program Mathematics Extraordinary Fortunate Toronto Applied Mathematics

Author:Walter Kohn

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