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" Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. "

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" We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. "

" Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me. "

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" Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. "

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" Good luck has its storms. "

" When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it. "

" The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself. "

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" This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances. "

" All we are saying is give peace a chance. "

" Humans having any kind of sporting chance against hostile alien invaders armed with superior technology - Good luck. If they're advanced enough to cross the enormous distances of interstellar space, they're advanced enough to wipe us out without breaking whatever in their physiology passes for a sweat. "

" What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. "

" As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion. "

" Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. "

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" Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance. "

" I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself. "

" My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title. "

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" Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. "

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" If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive. "

" I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more. "

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" We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. "

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

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" It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot. "

" If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go. "

" The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience. "

" When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice. "

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" Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps. "

" The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system. "

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" If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. "

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" At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. "

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