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" 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. "

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" The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them. "

Italo Calvino

Loved

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" Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles. "

Elie Saab

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" I'm only 35, and I felt that the time was right to try to come back and have a chance for him to see me play. "

" My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. "

" Theoretically, every probationary officer has a chance to become chairman. "

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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" What are we going to do to make sure people get the skills they need if they are incarcerated so that when they are released to hit the ground running? And what are we all going to do to give people who've earned a second chance, a second chance? "

" There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do. "

" Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. "

" I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me. "

" My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism. "

" Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. "

" Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Discipline

Education

Work

" I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear. "

" Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. "

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

" First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. "

" We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit. "

" Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. "

" Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion. "

" You have to take the belt, and I dont give my opponents a chance to take my belt. I go out there and take away their opportunity to take my belt away from me. "

" By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight. "

" Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. "

" Being a start-up has nothing to do with the numbers. It's that everyone who works there has the chance to do everything and have an impact. "

" I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me. "

" 'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars. "

" I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. "

" I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance. "

" You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it. "

" 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.' "

" There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that. "