Fortune
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The interesting question is: How do you go from
fortune
cookies being something that is Japanese to being something that is Chinese?
Well, we locked up all the Japanese during World War II, including those that made
fortune
cookies.
So,
fortune
cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans.
There is Italian Chinese food, where they don't have
fortune
cookies, so they serve fried gelato.
He said, "I got it from a
fortune
cookie."
Basically, of those 110 people, 104 of them or so had gotten their number from a
fortune
cookie.
I went across the country, looking for these restaurants where these people had gotten their
fortune
cookies from.
But at some point, all these people had a very similar experience that converged at a
fortune
cookie and a Chinese restaurant.
And all these restaurants were serving
fortune
cookies, which, of course, aren't even Chinese to begin with.
For example, Lem Sen, who introduced chop suey, Chef Peng, who introduced General Tso's Chicken, and all the Japanese bakers who introduced
fortune
cookies.
And then luckily, you know, I had the
fortune
of going to something called a library, and in the library I came upon this very book.
This is perhaps best exemplified in Hamlet’s most famous declaration of angst: "To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them."
I wonder how people exist without friendship, without people to share their secrets, hopes, and dreams, to share good
fortune
or sad losses.
There's enough precedent out there to show that a sustainable, community-friendly development can still make a
fortune.
I had the
fortune
to live and work for a time in the United States.
One year our
fortune
turned very bad.
I made a
fortune
over at Pixar.
And if our fates are intertwined, then we believe that it is good karma, it is good
fortune.
I have a vision for each one of you, and the vision I have for you is that when you wake up in the morning, your blood is singing at the thought of being who you are and doing what you do; that as you go through the day, you can literally sink to your knees in gratitude at the tremendous good
fortune
that's been bestowed on you; that as you go through the day, you become radiantly alive several times.
There's nothing like sitting in that library and having a family appear there and say that Mum gave away all the family
fortune.
And she realized that she had the great
fortune
to be born in a country where we take security for granted, where we not only can feed, clothe and house ourselves, but also provide for wild birds so they don't go hungry in the winter.
And she realized that with that great
fortune
comes great responsibility.
We start with Sherman in a Chinese restaurant, who gets a
fortune
that he's about to get caught by a trawler, which he does.
I am more invulnerable than Achilles;
fortune
hath not one place to hit me."
First off, the initial concept of a lost
fortune
in gold bars discovered in a New Zealand lake, inside a downed World War 2 plane is a great opening.
Depression-era road tale hearkens back to yesterday with three escaped chain-gang prisoners seeking a hidden fortune, and inadvertently becoming country music stars in the process!
A traveling salesman has his
fortune
told by an old man, who's predictions turn out to be amazingly correct.
And, should they survive this event, they come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of their particular good
fortune.
I mean, if this represents the market for indy horror, I could make a
fortune
videotaping myself taking out the garbage for 83 minutes.
While they have amassed a
fortune
over the years, they also have been selfish jerks.
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