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Far away in the American Midwest, I had the good fortune of meeting Somali-Americans who were working to counter the efforts of al Shabaab to recruit a small number of young people from their city of Minneapolis to take part in atrocities like Westgate.
Some years ago, it was my good fortune to meet a tribal elder on an island not far from Vancouver.
She was very familiar with the territory, so one night, when she was on guard, she just left, and she went to the army, she demobilized, and she was one of the persons that we had the fortune to talk to, and we were really touched by this story, so we made a radio spot, and it turns out, by chance, that far away, many, many kilometers north, he heard her on the radio, and when he heard her on the radio, he said, "What am I doing here?
It took me weeks of internal thinking to try to reconcile the good reasons we had to assist that family and the soldier of fortune he became.
In fact, he observed that many with the fortune of being born American were nonetheless trapped in lives that made second chances like his impossible.
And made an absolute fortune.
But we can take this visual vernacular and apply it to Mr. Sedaris, and we are so familiar with how fortune cookie fortunes look that we don't even need the bits of the cookie anymore.
It's made you an absolute fortune, and now it's allowing you to invest in the futures of thousands and thousands of kids across America and elsewhere.
In the olden days, explorers like Vasco da Gama and Columbus had the good fortune to open up the terrestrial globe.
Now we have the good fortune to open up space.
How about African King Musa Keita I? Ruling the Mali Empire in the 14th century CE, Mansa Musa, or the King of Kings, amassed a fortune that possibly made him one of the wealthiest people who ever lived.
I have the incredible good fortune to work at a moonshot factory.
Judgments are being made about your fortune or misfortune, your personality, career prospects and how you will do in a given year.
The last thing I want to say is that I had a lot of good fortune in the mentors and people who have played an important role in my life.
That comes from good fortune, but a lot of children aren't going to have that good fortune, and I think that raises really important questions for all of us about how we're going to change that.
You’ve recovered more than half the scoundrel’s fortune as restitution for the public.
And though he’s managed to hold on to some of his rubies, his fortune has definitely lost some of its shine.
Everyone is crowding 'round when fortune is your friend.
Avarice is the old woman clutching the strongbox and a fisherman's hook to pull in her fortune.
This paint can right here saved the Dutch Boy paint company, making them a fortune.
To find the shape, he graphed the main character’s fortune from the beginning to the end of a story.
In a story like this, it’s impossible to distinguish the character’s good fortune from the bad.
He found the tidy, satisfying arcs of many stories at odds with this reality, and he set out to explore the ambiguity between good and bad fortune in his own work.
I have the good fortune of being a filmmaker-in-residence at the Center of Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University.
He offered Xu Xian an alms bowl to ensure good fortune for his newborn son.
For example: beef with broccoli, egg rolls, General Tso's Chicken, fortune cookies, chop suey, the take-out boxes.
For example, I took a whole bunch of fortune cookies back to China, gave them to Chinese to see how they would react.
[There's a piece of paper inside!] (Laughter) [What is this?] [You've won a prize!] [What is this?] [It's a fortune!] [Tasty!]
And in Kyoto, outside, there are still small family-run bakeries that make fortune cookies, as they did over 100 years ago, 30 years before fortune cookies were introduced in the United States.
Back then, they made fortune cookies using very much the similar kind of irons that we saw back in Kyoto.
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