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" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "
William Hurt
Study
Long
Great
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" The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West. "
Jack Ma
Perception
Chance
People
" The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery. "
Noam Chomsky
Chance
Better
America
" 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. "
Muhammad Ali
Chance
Realize
Olympics
" If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. "
Anne Bradstreet
Stolen
Say
Well
" If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life. "
Bernard Sumner
Joy
People
New
" My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. "
Bruce Springsteen
Gay
Me
Nice
" 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
" I just have to take my chances like any other composer. "
Gordon Getty
Other
Chance
Chances
" Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it. "
Emilie Autumn
Fight
Losing
Winning
" The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. "
Dianne Feinstein
Rights
Chance
Courage
" Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education. "
Rod Blagojevich
Child
Health
Care
" A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one. "
Jerry Reinsdorf
Boy
Life
Team
" On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself. "
Eric Holder
Father
Myself
Son
" 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. "
Don Larsen
Chance
Blame
Grateful
" 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. "
William Wells Brown
Black
Rise
People
" Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty. "
Angus Deaton
Working
Poverty
Growth
" Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. "
Douglas Horton
Chance
You
Stand
" Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. "
Walter Anderson
Risk
Improve
Honest
" The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper. "
Sanford I. Weill
Grow
Better
Chance
" Ain't no chance if you don't take it. "
Guy Clark
Take
Chance
No Chance
" I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all. "
James Arthur
She
Live
Happy
" I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. "
Kevin Costner
Perfect
Chance
Decisions
" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "
William Hurt
Acting
Creative
Know
" When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom. "
John Gray
Chance
Respect
Men
" The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere. "
Sylvia Earle
People
Live
Chance
" If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. "
Neil Simon
Chance
Took
Ever
" A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney. "
Richard Branson
Friend
Customer
Chance
" Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment. "
Oren Peli
Life
People
Think
" I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. "
Aaliyah
Eye
Run
People
" Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance. "
Hillary Clinton
Fighting
Change
Women