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" An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing. "

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" I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film. "

" If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. "

" Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask. "

" Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? "

" Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. "

" I have never planned my career. I chose those films with which I could relate myself. But if given a chance, I would love to do the kind of roles Meryl Streep has done. "

" Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything. "

" Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. "

" For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. "

" The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. "

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" With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children. "

" All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts. "

" The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream. "

" All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. "

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" No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. "

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" When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? "

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" In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance. "