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My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.

~Francis Collins

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Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

~Francis Ford Coppola

Topics: Audience Because Been Best Big Feel Fortunate He Kinds Likes Loves Mass Movies Naturally Same Spielberg Steven Steven Spielberg Successful Things Unique Very I Feel

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I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

~Francis Ford Coppola

Topics: Ambitious Been Better Fail Failed Fortunate Life Mundane My Life Overly Succeed Than Think Upward Very Way I Think

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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Fortunate Never Unfortunate

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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Being Cured Esteem Fortunate Great Had Lives Passions Rest Them Themselves Those Unfortunate

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I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.

~Frank Quattrone

Topics: Apple Assignment Assistant Business Business School Came Company Computer Down First Fortunate Go He Investments Me Out Professor School Stanford Teaching Valley Very I Came

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When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

~Frankie Avalon

Topics: Fortunate Learn Play Quickly Started Trumpet Very

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One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.

~Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Topics: Another Been Brought Enough Fortunate He Him Inspired Literally Lot Me Movie Person Peter Place Taught Three Two Where Who Work Worked Years

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From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

~Freddie Wong

Topics: Been Creative Doing Fortunate Freedom Gave Had However Perspective Unlimited Us Very Wanted Way Whatever

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I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

~Freeman A. Hrabowski Iii

Topics: Both Enjoyed Fortunate Grow Grow Up Hardworking Home Mathematics Middle-Class Parents Reading Two Up Who

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