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" 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'm crazy about surprises. I love chance. "
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" 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. "
Charles B. Rangel
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" What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! "
Anatole France
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Skill
Heaven
" St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. "
Rowan Williams
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Others
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" He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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" There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well. "
Jeff Greenfield
People
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History
" I wouldn't say that 'Wowee Zowee' was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for 'Crooked Rain.' "
Stephen Malkmus
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Success
Rain
" Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it. "
Lee Iacocca
Risks
You
Business
" 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. "
Tobias Lutke
Chance
Who
Numbers
" A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea. "
Tracy K. Smith
Feeling
Chance
Experience
" 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
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" There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do. "
Charlize Theron
Only
Nothing
Chance
" If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion. "
Richard Burton
Better
Life
Complexion
" I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. "
Ron Perlman
Work
Think
Life
" One of the reasons you take a role is because it's something you always wanted to do, from going to the movies as a kid. I always wanted to do a 1950s movie, for example. And I got a chance to be in 'Peggy Sue Got Married.' I would have taken only one line of dialogue to be in that. "
Catherine Hicks
Always
Line
Kid
" 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. "
Cate Blanchett
Great
Life
Way
" I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. "
Ai Weiwei
People
Happy Life
Today
" I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette. "
Roselyn Sanchez
Sexy
I Can
Dress
" 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
" When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? "
Russell Hoban
Got
Attack
You
" There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance. "
Carlene Carter
Chance
Scared
Where
" 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. "
Adrian Tomine
Progress
Book
Work
" There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. "
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Control
Soul
Fate
" Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. "
Kenneth Branagh
Film
Good
Me
" There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing. "
Larry Wilmore
America
Kind
Together
" 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.' "
Sebastian Stan
Thought
Freedom
Parents
" I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. "
Dolly Parton
Business
Smart
Work
" Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "
Samuel Johnson
Ship
Jail
Drowned
" A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. "
Aldous Huxley
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" The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. "
Charles de Gaulle
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True
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