“If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.” IfsWritingSituationFailingLuckyCreating Author:Ira Glass
“I had some pretty lucky and good living situations; thankfully I never got forced out of an apartment. A lot of my friends got evicted or pushed out and couldn't afford a new place. For me, I wanted more space to set up a home studio, but there was no way to afford that.” WayHomeWantedSpaceSituationLuckyMy FriendsStudiosApartmentNew PlacesGood Living Author:Mikal Cronin
“I've never experienced a bad situation with men being sexist with me. I've been very lucky - even when I was just starting and modeling in Milan and Paris.” MenSituationLuckyStartingParisModelingSexistMilanBad Situations Author:Gal Gadot
“I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it.” ThinkingOpportunitySituationLuckySkillsFortunateAviationExposureGreat AviationSo LuckyAviatorFormer Friends Author:Bob Hoover
“If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.” IfsWayEndsSituationLuckyLosingPursueOur Relationship Author:Woody Allen
“I have never been in a situation thankfully where I haven't gotten along with my girlfriend's parents. I've been very lucky to have girlfriends that have had such amazing families that have brought me in.” ParentSituationHavensLuckyGirlfriendMy GirlfriendAmazing Family Author:Alex Pettyfer
“You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.” PeopleWellsHappensFilmWaitingSituationCareersLuckyBest ThingsSensitiveWow Author:Eli Roth
“I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.” AbleRememberActorsSituationPositionLuckyPercentFranceWorking It Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.” KnowsKindStillsSituationCareersPlansHappenedStupidGeniusTruth IsLuckyIdiotFlatteringReally Stupid Author:Ty Burrell
“I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.” MadeSituationWorstLuckyAppreciatedWorst Situation Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I have been lucky and have a tight relationship with my daughter even if I don't see her as much as I did before but it got me thinking about all different women's situations - and what there wouldn't be without us.” IfsThinkingHas BeensDifferentSituationLuckyDaughterMy Daughter Author:Lisa Maffia
“I've been super lucky in that I've either been in or helped create situations where I do what I want. I'm super lucky. I get to do what I want and create art and make people laugh, and it's really fun.” PeopleWantArtFunSituationLaughingLuckyMaking People Laugh Author:Paul Reubens
“Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].” KindTwoShowsSituationComedyLuckyDivorceAll KindsComedy Shows Author:Fred Armisen
“I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what is true of me - and has to be true of everyone who's ever been in a family - is that our idealization of reality when we're children always has to fall apart. It's the narratives we didn't know about that pop up and redraw reality. You have to be able to integrate secrets into who you are. My family does not look now like it does when I was a kid. There was divorce. There were family secrets. There was definitely a difference between what I thought was true and what was true.” ChildrenRealityKidsFallSecretSituationSeriousLuckyMy FamilyWho You AreDivorceBeing TrueFalling ApartIntegrating Author:Patrick Somerville
“Giving back has to do with the way I was brought up and the fact that I've traveled widely and seen terrible situations in the world. To sleep well at night, those of us who are in a position to help must address these situations. I'd get far greater satisfaction out of, say, walking into a hospital I'd built in South Africa than I would by sitting on a beach. I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to make a difference, and I don't want to waste that. I suspect I was also lucky to have parents who drove me from a young age.” WorldGivingEnoughHelpingAgeNightParentSleepSituationTerribleWalkingLuckyBeachMaking A DifferenceSouth AfricaGiving BackSo LuckySleep Well Author:Richard Branson
“I feel like we're always on the edge of someone standing up and saying, "Hey, the emperor's naked." I'm expecting that any second. But we're pretty lucky that way. The longer you do this, the more treacherous it can be, and the more pitfalls and sort of bad diversions you can find to paint yourself into a corner. But with every record, we try to change the situation, yet still keep it comfortable, and we're lucky to work with people who are inspiring to us who'll give us that extra push. It's nice to make records that are appreciated.” PeopleGivingTryingSituationNiceLuckyPaintExtrasExpectingAppreciated Author:Alan Sparhawk
“I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a writer or whether I have instrumental tracks or just a couple chords recorded on my phone. If I have a couple sessions set, I'll go into the studio with the people I'm lucky enough to call my friends because I feel like I can talk to them and then suddenly our conversations turn into these songs you hear on the radio. I still don't understand how it happens but I talk about my experiences and my situations and everything and then they turn into these amazing pop songs.” PeopleWritingEnoughSongSituationCoupleLuckyInspiredTrackPop Song Author:Hailee Steinfeld
“Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.” PeopleLife IsStarsSituationWorstDyingPlanetsBearsLuckyBedCrossesClaimsRoseAidsStarvingWidowsLebanonPeople DyingBed Of RosesLucky StarCrosses To BearWorst Situation Author:Yoko Ono