Lottery Quotes

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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

- Bianca Jagger

The process of making a film is a mad lottery. Whenever you get the feeling that you`re making something special, you have to quickly squash it because you are so often proved wrong.

- Ralph Fiennes

If I win the lottery, I`m gonna direct three to four pictures every four to five years, instead of one - and there won`t be time to act.

- Sean Penn

Here`s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery`?

- Jay Leno

I despise the Lottery. There`s less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

- Brian May

Acting is always what I wanted to do. Being able to act is like winning the lottery the first time. If Quentin Tarantino walked into a pub and said "Do you want to be an actor?" everyone would say yes. It`s not like wanting to be an architect or a doctor.

- Camilla Rutherford

It`s like winning the lottery.

- Carolina Adriana Herrera

Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

- Eva Braun

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

- Jesse Helms

I`m knowledgeable about the disease and have told my teammates not to worry. I think you have a better chance of winning the lottery.

- Robert Edwards

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

- Isiah Thomas

Well, sorry for them, but we`re not going to be in the lottery this year. If this team doesn`t have injuries, we`re not going to be a part of that.

- Sam Cassell

Some of today`s athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

- Linford Christie

The decision to go from an individual state lotto game to a multistate game is a natural evolution. The way a lottery increases profits is to design games that appeal to the masses, to broaden the player base.

- David Gale

Hopefully I am gaining knowledge of lottery essentials.

- Steve Adams

It`s a lottery thing, ... In my field of operations research, it`s called an action-timing problem: Dynamically over time you are offered opportunities to make decisions and once you say `yes,` you cannot go back.

- Richard Larson

Wouldn`t it be a coincidence if someone we dug up in Arizona, and who died in 1934 and claimed to be Billy the Kid, bled on that bench? That`s like winning the lottery,

- Tom Sullivan

An implementation plan has been put into effect to deliver on our key objectives -- unlocking, maximizing and returning long-term sustainable value to shareholders while increasing and enhancing the value of our services and products to our lottery customers,

- Bruce Turner

I think that`s the advantage to us in selling lottery tickets. We`re sitting here close to the Arkansas line and we have a lot of people that come into Oklahoma from other states.

- Dale Brown

I`ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

- Fran Lebowitz

Although it`s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it`s part-ownership of a business.

- Peter Lynch

Decisions were clearly made about the lottery in back rooms. In a way, you can see the lawsuit as a second chance for North Carolina to do the right thing.

- David Mills

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

- Queen Victoria

I`m glad that we finally took a straight up-or-down vote on the lottery. We have a very serious need throughout our state for school construction.

- Scott Thomas

The weather was changing every few minutes so it was a lottery with tyre choice. Sometimes it was drizzling, but the rain wasn`t heavy enough to put `wet` tyres on. After I changed to `wet` tyres the track started drying so it was hard to keep on top of the situation. My team made some good calls to improve our track position. I ended up doing a double stint, and physically it wasn`t a problem. You just had to drive to the conditions. The day started out badly with the engine failure in the warm-up. The crew did a great job getting the engine changed in time for the race. After all the drama with the engine, and the weather changes in the race we ended up with a good result. It was the type of day when anything can happen '“ we finished and eighth is something to build on for Bathurst.

- Paul Morris

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

- Adam J. Smith

Mr. Grunfeld and Jordan have accepted us with open arms, ... I`ve had phone calls, and I`ve felt like was a lottery pick all over again so I feel great. We`re very happy, and I appreciate this.

- Caron Butler

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.

- Alain Fournier

Those who have prospered and profited from life`s lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

- Alan Valentine

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

This could be practice for next year, but this kind of race is a lottery and I`ve got good enough form to get a result.

- Ann Talbert

'�'� we continue to spend fortunes on an stupefying array of distractions supposedly designed to make us happier than Liz Taylor at a wedding: Cosmetics that contain everything from the placenta of unborn goats to a pound of pig fat mixed with volcanic ash and '19 secret ingredients from the rain forest'�; diet products to remove mountains of blubber gained by stuffing ourselves because we are so damn miserable, and miserable because we are so horribly fat; cosmetic surgery in every place from facial to other cheeks; mind-numbing cruises to paradise; luxury boats that never leave their luxury marinas; hard drugs; soft drugs; alcohol; anti-depressants; uppers; downers; frenetic gambling to hit the big time; jewelry that is too expensive to wear; image marriages destined to last all of six months; mink-lined designer toilet seats; lottery tickets; tobacco products we know will kill us; and billions of tons of electronic and plastic and toxic junk that add nothing to our lives and create only clutter, pollution and landfill.

- Bailey Westerfield