Which makes you feel better about your lot in life.
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Experience counts for a lot in life — and in politics.
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Ahead, these celebrities got a new lot in life this year.
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"He's taught me a lot in life," Rizzo said, his voice quivering.
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Often, she would get frustrated—angry, even—about her lot in life.
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My heart goes out to people that want to improve their lot in life.
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"I'm a pretty lucky kid in that I have a lot in life," Wilkerson said.
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It was Legend's lot in life to be the victim of this gross-out game.
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It's a road to elevate young men and women out of their lot in life.
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"We must all accept our lot in life," Carol Ronsen says to her desperate neighbor.
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Or is everyone else a sheep who too easily accepts their pizza lot in life?
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"They were, in the end, only girls," Hobson writes, clearly stating their lot in life.
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I describe it as having a disease that I had accepted as my lot in life.
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"If you end up having a lot in life, there's so much to lose," he said.
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It's their lot in life to tend to any issue that gets public attention—planned or unplanned.
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Many Democrats, she says, are dismissive of her religious beliefs and condescending of her lot in life.
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He was permanently befuddled and overwhelmed, with a weary air of acceptance of his lot in life.
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Eight hours of runtime means ruminative takes, lots of silence and people considering their lot in life.
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He was disappointed with his lot in life, and didn't feel good about himself and things in general.
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Instead of lifting up the most marginalized, we scapegoat them and blame them for their lot in life.
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And they are hungry to transform their lot in life into something much more ambitious, much more grand.
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Some incels are "blackpilled," meaning they think this is their lot in life, and it cannot be changed.
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To say black people are totally responsible for their lot in life now that it's 2011 is not racist.
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These guys, they've been through a lot in life, and I feel like it comes through in their faces.
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I've been through a lot in life and what has gotten me through is strength of character and faith.
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It was done to try to improve their lot in life, but it shows how primitive things used to be.
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Such volatility is not uncommon for America's temps, however, whose numbers are growing even as their lot in life diminishes.
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People wanted change — and a chance to raise a throbbing finger to the forces they blame for their lot in life.
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In addition to all this, China also has a kind of politico-cultural sympathy for North Korea's current lot in life.
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I realize my lot in life is very good, and there was a lot of luck and dodged bullets along the way.
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"Going to be saying [our] kid's name a lot in life so gotta like the way it rolls off the tongue!" they explain.
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He might not be happy, exactly, but he's accepted his lot in life, if only because it's never occurred to him not to.
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Increasingly in America, your lot in life depends a lot more on your birthright than on your talents, hard work or other positive qualities.
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The more people we help, the better these communities are equipped to provide an environment for those who cannot escape their lot in life.
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This could have been for any number of reasons, whether because of U.S. policy abroad or his lot in life at home, he said.
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Let us continue working together to better our situation, such that my lot in life is not merely the herding of sightly Nazi-ish cats.
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But where Succession is about miserable rich people, Lodge 249 is about people who have very little but seem content with their lot in life.
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So can anything free these men from the prison of conspiratorial thinking, or is their lot in life to be afflicted with this artificial wokeness?
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At one table of four, Rida Ben Salem, 53, said he had lost any belief that the elections would change his difficult lot in life.
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In recent interviews, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has said the geography — where you are born — is the single biggest driver of your lot in life.
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As a single woman entirely happy with my lot in life, I wholeheartedly object to being identified homogenous member of a target market in need of empowerment.
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I am a black woman and I have had to sacrifice a whole lot in life just trying to do well, be well and make myself proud.
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Early in the second season of Pose, protagonist Blanca Rodriguez-Evangelista tries to convince ball emcee Pray Tell that Madonna's "Vogue" video will change their lot in life.
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Unlike Scandinavian countries, France's poor have little hope of improving their lot in life despite the billions of euros the government spends on them, according to OECD data.
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These well-intended programs remove the burning desire to succeed, to improve one's lot in life and replace it with an overwhelming complacent resolve to dependency and failure.
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Bolt is playful and brash, mugging for the cameras, pounding his chest and merrily reminding his frustrated opponents of their lot in life during and after the racing.
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Perhaps UBI advocates secretly, or not so secretly, believe in Reich's depressing and dangerous message that people simply can't improve their economic lot in life without random luck.
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The 21th-seeded Kyrgios muttered a few of his own at himself and his lot in life on the luminous blue court, whose color often matched his mood.
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It could mean that he thinks women have an easier lot in life than men — partly because men now have to be constantly "petrified" of being labeled sexists.
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It's the idea that the conditions of one's birth shouldn't determine one's lot in life, that you can come from anywhere and climb your way to the top.
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In it, Peterson argues that the problem with society today is that too many people blame their lot in life on forces outside their control — the patriarchy, for example.
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Poor people with few prospects are supposedly more likely to turn to crime to get by and as a way to lash out at their difficult lot in life.
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To my boyfriend (raised in a lower class than me but with more financial security), it was just our lot in life and something we'd never get out from.
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If people don't feel like they are beneficiaries of economic development, if they don't think their lot in life is improving, that's when they start getting all kinds of ideas.
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Given how much society reflexively blames victims, it's hard to argue that going public about rape is a fun, easy way to get attention and improve your lot in life.
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"The wealthy are accustomed to feeling that it is their lot in life to get the best food, schooling, entertainment, housing, plastic surgery, sports ticket, you name it," Mr. Buffett wrote.
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I wish these stories made me look cool (Milla Jovovich once stepped on my foot at a Toad The Wet Sprocket show—hi, I'm old!), but that's not my lot in life.
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It was the spring of 2014, and I was working at an alt-weekly, making very little money and desperate for an opportunity to advance both my career and lot in life.
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Leftist leaders, the senator said, were not in a position to deliver and did a poor job at convincing voters that their improved lot in life was the result of leftist policies.
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"She was the fall guy for everyone who'd lost his job, or had a hefty tax bill, or was angry about his lot in life and the direction of his country," he writes.
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Instead, what I mostly found were courageous, hard-working families from across Brazil who had come to the rugged town of sawmills, cattle ranches and smallholder settlements to improve their lot in life.
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Our place in the world is indispensable because we don't seek an expansive empire and dominion — we export freedom, technology, progress and a chance for individuals to make their own lot in life.
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On paper, Jelloman comes off like a classic rock 'n roll burnout; the sort of guy who enjoys a quiet life on the fringes of the scene, perfectly satisfied with his lot in life.
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We don't choose our parents or our genes or our environment or the quality of our minds, and yet these factors are as crucial as any in terms of deciding our lot in life.
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"I am just 2300 years old, but I have seen a lot in life," said Ms. Yousafzai, speaking in a choked voice about how she watched the Swat region slide into extremism and terrorism.
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On his new single "I'm Blessed," the R&B singer Charlie Wilson reflects on his lucky lot in life: "Everything is going my way, riding clean, living dreams," he sings in a velvety voice.
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I was holding down a mindless part-time job at a teen fashion store, playing keyboards in a band more or less on the weekends and generally feeling pretty miserable about my lot in life.
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Despite her self-awareness, she seems locked into her lot in life — much more so than even Noah, Helen and Cole, all of whom may be aware of what's wrong with them but perpetuate it anyway.
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This is a story full of people being miserable, humorless and selfish, despite having been given a lot in life, and they're pretty much the same at the end of it as they were at the beginning.
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Amy's arc over the show is that she's gone from someone who was a little more accepting of her lot in life [to someone who's] learned that she's a fighter and there are things worth fighting for.
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Aimless, poor, and depressed, Albert is fed up with his lot in life and decides to rob a bank in Bay Area-based filmmaker Joe Talbot's American Paradise, debuting online today as a Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere.
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Bill Konduros, 59, owner of a machine shop who lives in Mississauga, Ontario, and his brother, Jay Konduros, 54, a baker in Cambridge, Ontario, had assumed that constant vigilance and increasing disability was their lot in life.
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"Conflicted." That's the word political scientist Helmut Norpoth used to describe his current lot in life, one that finds his professional credibility intertwined with a politician who appears to have less and less of it: Donald J. Trump.
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The company has long held that partial access to its services, even with censorship, is better than no access, as it can connect people to loved ones and knowledge that can help them improve their lot in life.
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Like Seresin, and like most other lesbians, I've been on the receiving end of what feels like a million drunk straight women bemoaning their lot in life, insisting things would be sooooo much easier if they were queer.
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In that book, lower-caste citizens are given a drug to keep them docile and satisfied with their lot in life; in Metropolis, androids are dosed with a gas called "Nevermind" that wipes them of ties to their humanity.
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"I am just 20 years old, but I have seen a lot in life," she continued with a choked voice, recalling how she grew up in the picturesque Swat region only to watch it slide into extremism and terrorism.
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For so many of us who find ourselves occupying the uncomfortable role of "the one who Got Out," there's a heavy, lingering sense of betrayal to internalize; you got out, and hopefully improved your lot in life, but at what price?
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I haven't been on an antibiotic for acne in about a year, but that's how bad this cyst was, making me self-conscious with everyone I spoke to, which is just my lot in life and I'm used to it.
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Mounk also delves into the causes of the West's vulnerability to these demagogues—in his telling, decades of economic stagnation and relatively sudden demographic changes via immigration have made many people unhappy with their lot in life and prone to xenophobia.
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Star Laura Chinn (who also created the series and wrote several episodes) plays Shelby, a woman who grows frustrated with her lot in life when her friend receives a GED and moves out of the trailer park where the two live.
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At the same time, it documents widespread beliefs about the innate differences between these two groups that are little more than caricatures: one being industrious and entrepreneurial, the other wasters and losers with themselves to blame for their lot in life.
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The man who proverbially would never tell a lie sure could prevaricate, and Washington's carping about his troops, his officers and his lot in life — "I distrust everything," he grumbled in 1776 — transforms the demigod into a sometimes petulant mortal.
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The question of "what's the point?" comes up for me a lot in life: as a symptom of depression, a symptom of existence really, an underlying cause of anxiety regarding my place in the world, and what the world even is.
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It seems to me that, at 16, I was already somehow prepared for my lot in life and in love to be a sad and dangerous one, as if this were the natural price a woman paid for not being a housewife.
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For people who use "gender" this way, the point of the "cis" prefix is not to indicate that someone likes pink (or blue) and skirts (or trousers), or that a woman accepts sexual assault, mansplaining and discrimination as their lot in life.
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Undeterred by their poor lot in life and Chotu losing his vision due to an illness, the siblings go through life rather cheerfully, bickering over their respective idols Salman and Shah Rukh Khan, watching movies with their uncle and frolicking in the desert.
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Many of his supporters seem angry about so many things — a black president, their lot in life, not getting their piece of the American dream or having to share that American dream with people of color, women, gay, lesbian and transgender people.
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With a view to improving everyone's financial lot in life, the name of the game is capitalism, and more specifically democratising the opportunity to invest, making it possible for more people beyond the often-cloistered and clubby environment of the investment world.
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He saw the endless pasture of the future available to Usama and to me — the college degrees, the jet-set summers, the glimmering reputations — and then he saw the dim, decaying patch of grass that was to be his lot in life.
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Maude and Hannah finally appeared, Maude taller, Hannah skinnier, their twinhood one of the few things they had in common, as if for those nine months in the womb they had negotiated personality traits and physical attributes, had divided between them their lot in life.
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But the true Moses of Ripley was a former slave named John P. Parker, who helped make the town a major nexus in the path of kidnapped Africans and their descendants determined that their lot in life was not to be thought of as property.
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But saying otherwise means telling the voters who find this promise appealing that they need to suck it up and accept their lot in life, something that would not be a good strategy from any politician, but especially not from the wife of the man who signed NAFTA.
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"I guess it's my lot in life — God gave me certain skills to be able to help people in their hour of need," said Mr. Koen, captain of the Baylander, a 130-foot decommissioned Navy vessel he docks at West Harlem Piers Park, at the end of 125th Street in Manhattan.
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Even as I might feel rejected by the UK, I'm conscious of the fact that only a quarter of the country's population voted in favor of Brexit, and from among them, the vast majority were motivated by dissatisfaction with their own lot in life, not some bellicose desire to inflict harm and hardship on others.
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It's been a theme in some of my fiction lately, and this was a way to further explore the different possibilities but through the experience of someone like Benjamin who began as one "type" of AI but was able to "upstart" himself, change his lot in life, and become something more, which is a human story to me.
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I think we have to be careful not to either appear or actually be too engaged in this, if you will, while certainly, again, promoting certain activities, the reforms, the other activities that are so necessary, again, to improve the lot in life of the Iraqi citizen, a country that by the resources that it has.
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But if one has a magic wand to wave, changing the voting patterns of one party is as easy as changing the voting patterns of another, or as establishing the social norm that electors vote for the winner of the popular vote, or as convincing a large share of dissatisfied Trump voters to be happy with their lot in life.
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"Not a lot of people back then really wanted to ride the subway between 8 at night and 4 in the morning but they did so to get back and forth to work, to provide for their families and to improve their lot in life and they were happy to see a uniform cop because they felt safer," Chief O'Neill said.
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The black theorist, sociologist and historian W. E. B. Du Bois was among the first to articulate for a wide audience the psychological jolt he felt as a child of realizing, after playing with a white child, that he was seen as a problem, and that his lot in life in America was to see himself as whites saw him, to acknowledge himself as a problem.
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To have people that you've known for that long – those are real relationships – it's real friendships, we've gone through a lot in life together," she says in the interview, which airs Friday at 8:00 am ET. "As you get older you start to lose people in your life and when you lose people in your life you have less of a purpose so it's really, really important to stay engaged.
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