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" First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct. "

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" Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance. "

George Steinbrenner

" Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score. "

" I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy. "

" I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me. "

" I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance. "

" Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things. "

" When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from. "

" In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! "

" Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. "

Steven Spielberg

" I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part. "

Douglas Coupland

" I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome. "

" If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes? "

" When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ. "

" There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have. "

" Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation. "

" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "

" I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home. "

" In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment. "

Florence Kelley

" 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

" Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. "

" Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. "

Laurence J. Peter

" How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell. "

" You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them! "

" I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break. "

" You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. "

" I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over. "

" Necessity is the mother of taking chances. "

" A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "

Winston Churchill

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

Garry Shandling