"Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets."
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"You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket."
"If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease."
"The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets."
"Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos."
"Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast."
"The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark."
"A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world."
"It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket."
"The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it."
"Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it."
"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."
"A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize."
"It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night."
"Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for."
"When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do."
"When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time."
"What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?"
"I have kids who buy tickets for my show... How could I take their money and ignore their problems?"
"With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me.""
"I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money."