Margaret Thatcher348
British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013Related quotes
„Must be awfully lucky to see colors like that. I bet they don't even know how lucky they are.“
— Gary Ross American film director 1956
Bill Johnson
Pleasantville (1998)
— Piet de Jong Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1915 - 2016
When a tv interviewer told him he was pretty lucky for surviving World War II in a submarine.
Piet de Jong http://profiel.kro.nl/seizoenen/2011/afleveringen/23-03-2011/ (KRO)
„Lucky me, I hit the trifecta.“
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
In reference to his prior, oft-repeated promises to run a year-to-year budget surplus, except in the event of war, recession, or national emergency. Statement made to budget director Mitchell Daniels, mid-September; as quoted by him in an address to the OMB Conference Board (October 16, 2001) http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/omb/pubpress/daniels_conference_board_speech10-16-01.html repeated as a dubious joke through 2002: at Robin Hayes for Congress and Elizabeth Dole for Senate luncheon, Charlotte NC, February 27; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/02/20020227-6.html at Latham for Congress Luncheon, DesMoines IA, March 1; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020301-6.html at Saxby Chambliss for Senate Dinner, Atlanta GA, March 27; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020327-10.html at Graham for Senate Luncheon, Greenville SC, March 27; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020327-5.html at Cornyn for Senate Luncheon, Dallas TX, March 29; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020328.html at Fisher for Governor Reception, Philadelphia PA, April 3; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020403-1.html at Leaders of the Fiscal Responsibility Coalition, Eisenhower Executive Office Bldg, April 16; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020416-8.html at Heather Wilson for Congress Luncheon, Albuquerque NM, April 29; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020429-4.html at Simon for Governor Luncheon, Santa Clara CA, May 1; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020501-2.html at Taft for Governor Luncheon, Columbus OH, May 10; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020510-3.html at 14th Annual World Pork Expo, DesMoines IA, June 7; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020607-4.html at 21st Century High Tech Forum, Eisenhower Executive Office Bldg, June 13; http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020613-11.html at Texans for Rick Perry, Houston TX, June 14. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020614-8.html
Quoted by Paul Krugman in "Hitting the Trifecta," The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/opinion/07KRUG.html
2000s, 2001
„I can't help it if I'm lucky.“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
„For the record, I don’t deserve this. But I have lower back pain and don’t deserve that either.“
— Robert J. Marks II American electrical engineering researcher and intelligent design advocate 1950
After being listed as one of the twenty most brilliant living Christian Professors. Originally sourced to Jack Benny.
"Baylor faculty member named one of '20 Most Brilliant Christian Professors,'" Waco Tribune-Herald,(April 15, 2010), Tim Woods, 2011-01-15, 2011-04-28 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Baylor-faculty-member-named-one-of-20-Most-Brilliant-Christian-Professors.html,
„If I am lucky, the picture will paint itself“
Quoted in Insights by Liz rideal, National Portrait Gallery, London 2005 ISBN 1855143631
— Loretta Chase American writer 1949
Source: Silk Is for Seduction
— Michael Thomas Ford American writer 1968
Source: Suicide Notes
— John Hodgman, book The Areas of My Expertise
April 25, 2006
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
„I think I deserve an apology.“
— Dana Perino Former White House Press Secretary 1972
AP, July 9, 2008 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/09/perino-boxer/
„Good love is hard to find.
You got lucky, babe.
You got lucky, babe, when I found you.“
— Tom Petty American musician 1950 - 2017
You Got Lucky, written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Long After Dark (1982)
„The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.“
— Francesca Lia Block American children's writer 1962
Source: Pink Smog
„Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.“
— John Travolta American actor, dancer and singer 1954
„I wasn't born, I was unleashed.“
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, book Dance with the Devil
Source: Dance with the Devil
— John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018
In Republican presidential debate, Orlando, Florida, 21 October 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/us/politics/21debate-transcript.html?pagewanted=3
2000s, 2007
— Gillian Anderson American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer 1968
Tony Barrell (September 18, 2005) "Agent Scullery - Interview", The Sunday Times, p. Sunday Times Magazine 46.
2000s
„In the beginning. I wasn't there.“
— Rick Riordan American writer 1964
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods