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" We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. "

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" ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life. "

Sebastiao Salgado

" Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people. "

" Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. "

Mary Tyler Moore

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

" The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners. "

" 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

" The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women. "

" 'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it. "

" We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. "

Henry Kissinger

" When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.' "

Christopher Moore

" I cry every chance I get. "

" I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive. "

" Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents. "

" In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. "

" I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin. "

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

" It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood. "

" You don't have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to be a gracious individual and understand that everybody messes up and that most are looking for a second chance. "

" If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth. "

Roberto Clemente

" Good luck is a residue of preparation. "

Jack Youngblood

" 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

" Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently. "

Kenneth Branagh

" I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Great customer service does not come by chance. It is the result of training and ensuring there are enough assistants to serve the customers. "

" I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast. "

" Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice. "

Trevor Brooking

" It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. "

" I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale. "

Thomas Heatherwick

" If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance. "