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" Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. "

William Feather

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" In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. "

William Ernest Henley

" We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. "

" 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. "

" Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Shelley Fabares

" With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class. "

" Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. "

Margaret J. Wheatley

" Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" As a believer in the free market, the sooner you have people with a job - the better chance they have a job, the sooner they are employed - the sooner they become consumers. And the sooner they become consumers, the sooner they become deciders about their own health care decisions. "

Carlos Lopez-Cantera

" Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. "

" The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. "

" Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much. "

" My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. "

Bruce Springsteen

" In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. "

" I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society. "

Stellan Skarsgard

" Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. "

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

" The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine. "

Wendy O. Williams

" What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine. "

" You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. "

" I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. "

William Feather

" Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance. "

" The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team. "

" When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do. "

Adrienne Barbeau

" 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. "

" Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" 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. "

" First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct. "