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Edith Widder Quote: 'I never, ever would have imagined ...'

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Profession: Scientist
Nationality: American
Birthday: 1951

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I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

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It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

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We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

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I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

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This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

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I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

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I've never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they're like, 'Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,' but I'm like, 'I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,' so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

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I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

Marian Wright Edelman

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I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash.

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I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'

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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

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At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

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