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" There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance. "

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

Stephen Leacock

" 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. "

" Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity. "

" 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. "

" Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. "

" I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently. "

" I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen. "

" I'm a great believer in giving people a chance. "

" There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. "

James Cash Penney

Working Together

" As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers. "

" Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. "

" I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids. "

" Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal. "

" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "

" It takes one person to give you a big chance. "

Patricia Velasquez

" My left foot is severely damaged from TSS, and I'm probably going to have to amputate my left leg. I could be super depressed about it, but I have been given a second chance. I'm here, and I'm living. "

" I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. "

" When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it. "

" If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. "

" If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. "

" You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world. "

James Earl Jones

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

William Feather

" We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. "

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

" It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook. "

" Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. "

Steven Spielberg

" Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital. "

" Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform. "

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