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" If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. "

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" If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters. "

Tracy Chapman

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" Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. "

" True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "

" Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks. "

" The ADA gave more than 50 million Americans with disabilities, just like my son Cole, the chance to live the American Dream and be defined only by their potential - not their limitations. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

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" A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. "

" The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life. "

" We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet. "

" I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much. "

" I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. "

" Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. "

" The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that. "

" The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you. "

" While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. "

" Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression. "

" Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress. "

" When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from. "

" If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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" I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated. "

George C. Wolfe

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" I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply. "

" The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous. "

" Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it. "

" Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale. "

" The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream. "

" People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers. "

" You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. "

" One chance is all you need. "

" I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life. "

" I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living. "

" The things I learned from my parents, what was deeply ingrained in their generation, is this idea of opportunity and the freedom to have an opportunity. The way the United States was thought of is as a place you can have this chance to do anything, to say, 'This is my idea, and I get to offer it to you, and if you like it, I can profit from it.' "