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" I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that. "

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" In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness. "

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" When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening. "

" Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. "

" The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud. "

" You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. "

" We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA. "

" The only safe thing is to take a chance. "

" Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent. "

" I'm not a politician. "

Condoleezza Rice

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" I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction. "

" Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. "

" Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards. "

" Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives. "

" I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense. "

" Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. "

" Bumble gives men a chance to take a step back and not be the macho aggressor that they may not want to be but were socialized to be. We think it makes for a better and more peaceful environment for everyone. "

" 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. "

" When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing. "

" How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell. "

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" When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was. "

" I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "

" After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. "

" Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time. "

" I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series. "

" I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself. "

" My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance. "

" Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. "

" People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings. "

" I know a lot of very stable gay couples. "

" I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's. "