Chance Quotes - Page 18

• It's always great to have another chance at something.

  Stockard Channing

  Another Chance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

  Ted Alexandro

  Thinking, Voice, Risk

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• If you're immortal, you can imagine being sad or grieving if a lover leaves you. But if everyone were immortal, then that leaving isn't necessarily forever. There's always a chance that you get them back somewhere down the road - you know, in 5, 10, 20,000 years. So I think that the urgency of the moment gets sapped.

  Todd May

  Thinking, Grieving, Years

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One of the things that makes the uncertainty of death so difficult for us is that we could be involved in a project and then, suddenly, it's cut off. And it's cut off in the midst of our involvement, so that we don't have a chance to see it through, to accomplish what we might accomplish.

  Todd May

  Cutting, Might, Projects

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Space, Different, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

  Dana Spiotta

  Meaningful, Want, Complicated

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Thinking

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• My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.

  Carolyn Parrish

  Moving Forward, Forgiving, President

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• If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

  Robert Haven Schauffler

  Hate, Self, Ifs

  Robert Haven Schauffler (2009). “The Joyful Heart”, p.62, The Floating Press

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• The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

  Muddy Waters

  Party, Sleep, Night

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• Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

  Tink

  Beautiful, Giving, Important

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• The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Ocean, Mean, Swimming

  Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”

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• History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.

  David McCullough

  People, Flavor, Tables

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• You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Half, Right Now

  Jim Rohn (2013). “7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher”, p.42, Harmony

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• I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

  Joseph Conrad

  Finding Yourself

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.41, Penguin

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• If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

  Ronald Reagan

  Missing, Looks, Cost

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• Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Stupid, Hard Work, Mad

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• I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

  Pete Cashmore

  Past, Giving, Challenges

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• Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.

  Trent Shelton

  Heart, Giving, Abuse

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2018

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• Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

  Jack Bauer

  Responsibility, Second Chance, Firsts

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• Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

  Wil Wheaton

  Safety, World, Way

  Wil Wheaton (2004). “Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise”, p.195, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all.

  Orlando Bloom

  Kissing, Needs, Care

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• Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

  David Paul

  Home, Sleep, Rivers

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• It's a chance for people to understand where we came from.

  Amadou Bagayoko

  People

  "'It's a chance to understand where we came from'". Interview with Robin Denselow, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  David Edward

  Self, Common Sense, People

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