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" I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. "

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" 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. "

V. S. Naipaul

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World

Thought

" Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? "

" If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. "

" If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women. "

" Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for. "

" The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. "

" If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion. "

" Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow. "

" How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? "

" So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week. "

Regis Philbin

Chance

Week

" At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3. "

" Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility. "

" Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies. "

" I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce. "

" From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance. "

" Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium. "

" You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that. "

" The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. "

" Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly. "

" As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. "

" I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. "

" In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. "

" If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream. "

" If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun. "

Lindsey Vonn

" From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of. "

" I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game. "

" You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin. "