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" Buy the ticket, take the ride. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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" Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards. "

" I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame. "

Dennis Eckersley

" When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful. "

" I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. "

Gisele Bundchen

" I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma. "

" In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. "

William Ernest Henley

" I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better. "

" A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. "

" I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life. "

" As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression. "

" One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. "

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

" The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level. "

" Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Since my 'Crown of Midnight' tour in 2013, we've had such a rapid jump in audience numbers that we've had to move to bigger venues, cap events, and find new and creative ways to keep the line flowing while still allowing me the chance to chat with each person, which will always be very, very important to me. "

" I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance. "

" Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story. "

" I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films. "

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" There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored. "

Garry Shandling

" Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. "

Stephen Hawking

" Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. "

" I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive. "

" Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Without gambling, I would not exist. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation. "

Hillary Clinton

" I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. "

" Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? "

Thomas Clarkson