Sentences with phrase «of a winning lottery ticket»
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A lot of people think that winning the lottery is their ticket to success, but I've got bad news for you.
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The one winning Powerball ticket that was sold in New Hampshire is good for a $ 570 million jackpot, capping a weekend lottery jackpot haul of more than $ 1 billion.
I completely understand the psychology of buying lottery tickets, but the odds are so slim of winning that taking that $ 2 every time you want to purchase a ticket and diverting it towards investments instead is almost guaranteed to bring you better odds and fortune.
Steve Mnuchin joined relatively late in the campaign, only six months before the election, raised a lot of money, kind of bought a lottery ticket by betting on Donald Trump, and won.
These options were akin to lottery tickets that couldn't lose, and, in the bull market of the late 1990's, were sure to win.
This is comparable to the probability of every person on the planet buying six billion lottery tickets every day and the same person winning every day for a year.
It's like playing the galactic lottery, the odds are stupendously against winning, yet people do every week because of the sheer number of tickets bought.
This recipe is the gastronomic equivalent of finding a winning lottery ticket in my sock drawer: --RRB-
Instead, the game was decided by the lottery of penalties and it was Huddersfield who had the winning ticket, prevailing 4 - 3 after Liam Moore missed and Terriers goalkeeper Danny Ward saved from Jordan Obita.
we are out of this title race because the way we are playing, not because we are down by 10 pts... must say, fun to watch LC go from first last yr to this garbage now, vardy & mahrez left a winning lottery tickets on the table, crazy
Billy buys a New Jersey lottery ticket for each week of the summer, and this year, when the pot reached $ 31 million, his 18 - year - old son, Toby, asked him where he would go if he won the jackpot.
On your basis of reckoning I am almost certain to be the next Pope, despite not being a Catholic and fully expect to win the next Euro Lottery, despite never buying lottery tLottery, despite never buying lottery tlottery tickets.
If the Vikings and Jaguars win, you lose your mega lottery ticket, but your net $ 100 winnings from the two hedge bets above pays for one of the future tickets, with the Jags still pending.
Reminds me of that joke whit the bloke asking god to win the big lottery prize and god yelled at him ffs dude, I am rigging all these numbers for you but you still have to buy a lottery ticket mate!
If I were giving odds as to whether this is likely in the next twenty years, let us say, I would prefer my chances of winning the National Lottery; even though I never buy tickets!
Some have drawn comparisons between the two incidents, saying that Barkley's attempt was the same as Ox's but because his resulted in a goal he was applauded whilst Ox was criticised, the difference in my opinion was the options, Barkley really had no other options and most of his team mates were safely behind him, therefore he bought a ticket to the lottery and won, Ox had options, plenty of them and at 2 - 0 up there was no need to try and force a third before half time.
I like the one where a women goes into financial ruin expecting god to have her win the lottery and when she asked god why god said «for the love of me lady, buy a ticket!
If I buy five lottery tickets instead of one, my odds of winning increase by 500 %.
If a civic organization in your community came to your house selling tickets for $ 5 for a new car, and every two out of 100 people would win, you would think those are pretty good odds; much better than the average lottery.
Tickets for Mega Millions will at the end of October go from $ 1 to $ 2, although Lottery officials say there will be more chances to win.
DeLaRoca, 45, of Spring Valley who is also an illegal immigrant won $ 3 million from a scratch off lottery ticket in early 2011.
«Sociality can be thought of as evolution's winning lottery ticket,» Hughes says.
It's a little like a lottery: the chance of winning is minuscule but because millions buy a ticket every week there is usually a winner.
The chances of that date becoming a relationship are about the same as that ticket winning the lottery.
In 2001, Probst made the transition into feature films as the director of Finder's Fee — a drama concerning a man who finds a wallet with a winning lottery ticket.
At least until she encounters a dead hotel maid during their Hawaiian honeymoon — and figures out her new hubby is responsible for the disappearances of several other women who look like our heroine (including one who actually bought the winning lottery ticket).
And those touched by the misfortune are not that twice removed, including Ginger and her ex-husband Augie (Andrew Dice Clay), suckered into putting their one ticket to happiness (literally a winning lottery ticket) into one of Hal's monetary scams.
If fame is as fickle as winning a lottery, then maybe the best ticket to the top is acceptance into the New York City High School of Performing Arts.
This economic uncertainty is translated into the quest of Bruce Dern's character Woody, a fragile elderly man who is determined to take what he believes is a winning lottery ticket all the way to Nebraska.
First, «Three Strangers» (1946) tells the cynical tale of a trio bonded by fate and a winning lottery ticket: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
WAKING NED DEVINE Two elderly gents want to find out who among their 50 neighbors holds the winning ticket in the national lottery in this gem of Irish humor.
Getting an award like the BFCA is nothing more than getting a lottery ticket for the big draw, the excitement of being in the hunt for the big prize is obviously there but ultimate gratification solely rests with the outcome of the lottery, the ticket is thrown away after the lottery winner is announced, regardless of whether you have won or not.
In this video from PatrickJMT we look at how to calculate the probability of you winning the Texas Lottery game «Texas Millions» if you buy one ticket.
The chances of people finding out about your free days without you spending money to tell them, are about as many as winning a second lottery ticket, after word of mouth alone has made your book a best - seller.
This is a bit off topic, but I just completed a study that compares the earnings of people who buy a winning lottery ticket vs. the earnings of people who invest their $ 1 in other ways.
If the odds of winning a lottery jackpot are one in 292 million, and the jackpot prize is expected to be greater than than $ 1 billion, does this make a lottery ticket a wise investment?
If you and another person (or group of people) went in a pool to buy a bunch of lottery tickets, and win, how does taxation work for people who split lottery winnings?
To help you get the most bang for your lotto ticket buck, MoneySense has updated its list of lotteries and scratch tickets that offer the best chance at winning $ 100,000 or more.
Renters insurance will either not cover or sets limits of a few hundred dollars on cash and cash equivalents, so a winning lottery ticket wouldn't be covered.
Citing Scottish social philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, Milevsky says the tontine «appeals to the gambling instinct» — the same confidence that frequent buyers of lottery tickets seem to exhibit, despite the poor odds of winning.
If not, you may want to encourage your children to start playing in heavy traffic, or with heavy machinery — for many distressed consumers, the loss of a limb might be their only winning lottery ticket in life.
These options were akin to lottery tickets that couldn't lose, and, in the bull market of the late 1990's, were sure to win.
Winning the lottery is a fantasy for most people, but that doesn't stop Americans from spending close to $ 70 billion a year on tickets and wasting most of it.
This illusion of control helps explain why people who buy lottery tickets are given an option to choose their own numbers, even though all combinations have the same (and staggeringly low) chance of winning the jackpot.
Like those of us who buy a lottery ticket, she had a vague notion that she could win the big prize but she didn't really expect to be chosen.
I completely understand the psychology of buying lottery tickets, but the odds are so slim of winning that taking that $ 2 every time you want to purchase a ticket and diverting it towards investments instead is almost guaranteed to bring you better odds and fortune.
Bad luck followed him with accusations of robbery and arson until he found a winning lottery ticket.
When you can trade 70,000 MileagePlus miles per person for a pair of United BusinessFirst tickets from Beijing to Newark, you feel as if you have won the lottery.
When you've played all of the events and the party mode once or twice, what you have left is «Scratchers», literally scratch lottery tickets to win avatar items.
When I gamble, be it at a craps table, blackjack table, slot machine, lottery ticket, what have you, there is no guarantee of me winning anything.