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" I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, 'You need to be mature. You need to be positive. You need to be bigger than the folks who are trying to tear you down.' "
Bert Lance
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" The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you. "
Scott Adams
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" Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been. "
Arthur Ransome
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" The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. "
Maimonides
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" At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. "
Leonard Cohen
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" I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century. "
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" I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it. "
Helen Thomas
" Good luck is a residue of preparation. "
Jack Youngblood
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" Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success. "
Peter Diamandis
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People
Goals
" 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
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" Some folk want their luck buttered. "
Thomas Hardy
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Want
Buttered
" A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. "
Branch Rickey
Great
Will
Take A Chance
" I totally understand that I am a little outrageous in some ways... I'm a little un-P.C., but I really wish I had the chance to perform for the American fans. "
Johnny Weir
Wish
I Am
Chance
" 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. "
Candice Olson
Light
Good
Makeup
" Employers are looking for individuals who can tell a story about what they bring to a particular company, and people with an understanding of that have a much better chance of getting to where they want to go. "
Kathryn Minshew
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Chance
People
" A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. "
Neale Donald Walsch
Creation
Choice
Action
" Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story. "
Lee Gutkind
Story
Chance
Creative
" Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then. "
Garrison Keillor
Good
Rain
Thankful
" Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. "
George S. Patton
Different
Being
Chance
" I couldn't believe it when Penguin offered me the chance to publish a book. "
Brooklyn Beckham
Me
Chance
Book
" The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners. "
Raghuram Rajan
Accept
Chance
Opportunities
" I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. "
Billie Holiday
Play
Old
Working
" Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Always
Chance
Life
" The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor. "
Gary Sinise
Romantic
Me
Character
" I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road. "
Benedict Cumberbatch
Trust
Road
Education
" I cry every chance I get. "
Richard Gere
Get
Every
Chance
" Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting. "
Aja Naomi King
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Think
Chance
" When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.' "
Christopher Moore
Nobody
Teach
You
" When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one. "
Andrea Seigel
College
Country
Myself
" I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances. "
Carmen Electra
People
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" In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake. "
Victoria Pendleton
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