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Timing in my life has been fortuitous.
Joe Buck / Sportscaster
Fortuitous
Timing
Life My Life Been
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
C. P. Scott / Journalist
Circumstances
Combination
Fortuitous
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
Oliver Goldsmith / Novelist
Convenience
Fortuitous
Pleasure
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It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.
John Gruber / Writer
Daring
Defined
Fortuitous
Site
Apple
Mac
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The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.
Jacques Ibert / Composer
Fortuitous
Harmonious
Series
Synthesis
Aspects
Union
Result
Single Thought
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger / Artist
Eloquence
Fortuitous
Hard Work
Mind
Personalized
Practice
Prominence
Social Relations
Timing
Work Good Hard Work
Work Good Mind
Mix
Relations
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown /
Circumstances
Decree
Fate
Fortuitous
Hasty
Impress
Majority
Relentless
Accident
Constitute
Often
Regarded
Shape
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Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
Ethan Coen / Film Director
Opportunity
Design
Ambition
Fortuitous
Opposed
Non-Commercial
Reasons
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I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and think that what your character is doing is ridiculous. You don't want anyone to watch it and go, 'Oh my God, that's just fortuitous.'
Claire Foy / Film Actress
Fortuitous
Anywhere
Oh
Oh My God
Whenever
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I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.
Stella Young / Comedian
Australia
Boxes
Disabled
Filling
Fortuitous
My Time
Life Love Time
Forms
Chunk
Ticking
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My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.
Alanis Morissette / Singer-Songwriter
Parenting
Approach
Attachment
Fortuitous
Living Room
Months
Son
Build
Record
Studio
Same Time
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Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.
Charles A. Beard / Historian
Candidates
Conventions
Direct
Fortuitous
Machinery
Requirements
Inevitably
Leads
Offices
Practical
Result
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I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Crow
Finest
Fortuitous
Hey
Stand Up Comedy
Unemployed
Usual
Shakespeare
Sketch
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
Dambisa Moyo / Author
China
Fortuitous
Training
African
Background
Classical
Lens
Vested
Vested Interest
Wherever
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Looking back, Google's success came from the fortuitous timing of being born at the cusp of the broadband age. But it also came about because of the new reality of the Internet: a lot of services were going to be algorithmic, and owning your own infrastructure would be a key advantage.
Om Malik /
Advantage
Broadband
Cusp
Fortuitous
Infrastructure
Looking Back
Timing
Owning
Services
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I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.
Stephen Jay Gould / Paleontologist
Atheism
Cosmic
Fortuitous
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