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" Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things. "
Joe Biden
Country
Down
Chance
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" It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars! "
Alexander Woollcott
Dance
Sing
Act
" People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know. "
Richard P. Feynman
Know
Want
Always
" The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength. "
Jack Ma
Team
Innovation
Strength
" This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started. "
Nick Cannon
Music
People
Know
" Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance. "
Tom Hodgkinson
Peace
Creative
Saying
" 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. "
Pooja Hegde
Doing
Blessed
Career
" First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct. "
Barry Levinson
Got
First
Chance
" I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system. "
Andy Biersack
Chance
Belief
Music
" A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make. "
Grant Heslov
Good
Luck
Night
" Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. "
Ayrton Senna
Chance
Air
Island
" In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. "
Gunter Grass
Changes
Chance
Words
" Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? "
Jimmy Johnson
Take A Chance
Good
Great
" Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! "
Davy Crockett
Pig
Through
Like
" The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.' "
Brendan Myers
Good
Partner
Relationship
" I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not. "
Victor LaValle
Me
Mind
Woman
" If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. "
Clarence Day
You
Good
Chance
" What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will. "
Barack Obama
" There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance. "
Kate Smith
Stage
Second Chance
Chance
" I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. "
Arnold Palmer
Me
Quit
Chance
" 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. "
S. E. Hinton
Ending
Tell
Me
" There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. "
Ice Cube
Smart
People
Places
" I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. "
Brian May
Chance
You
Lottery
" I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work. "
Adam Ross
Think
Hard Work
You
" The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that. "
Hillary Clinton
New
People
Chance
" I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "
Stephen Leacock
Find
Chance
Great
" Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. "
Ralph Marston
Chance
Yourself
Work
" 'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! "
Andrew Gross
Chance
Life
Eyes
" There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance. "
Roger Penrose
Universe
Sense
Say
" I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. "
Robert Fulghum
Fear
Boredom
Learning
" Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory days when you get older and drink Bud with the guys from the office. Get it done when you're young, while you have the chance. "
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Play
You
Football