Chance Quotes - Page 31

• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.

  Stephen King

  Religious, Glasses, Purpose

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• Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

  Virginia Woolf

  Knows

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• I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Q&A with Alan Boyle, www.nbcnews.com. July 19, 2004.

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• Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Trying, Talent, Notion

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.130, Penguin

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• I'm not saying that anybody should like me. Give me a chance before you form that opinion.

  Shannen Doherty

  Giving, Give Me A Chance, Opinion

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• When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Player, Years

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• That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Chances Are, Effects

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• Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.

  Nate Berkus

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• Evidently there is no need for delay, no need for further study, if the government takes a loss and Wall Street makes a profit, but it is absolutely necessary to delay if homeowners might have a chance to cut their mortgages and stay in their homes. This is wrong, and it is time to fight back!

  Elizabeth Warren

  Wall, Home, Fighting

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• I always feel like, when you go into an audition, your best chance at success is to be as comfortable as you can be. It's generally more helpful for me to just be confident and comfortable.

  Hoon Lee

  Auditions, Helpful, Be Confident

  Source: collider.com

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• When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.

  Josh Gad

  Past, Breathing, Rooms

  "Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 PENN, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama that was a disaster. When there was a chance to do something constructive about Syria with a no-fly zone, he said we don`t need one.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Views, Libertarian

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don`t put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he`s got a chance to do that.

  Howard Fineman

  Troops, Argument, Ifs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have a very special love for all of those actors [in Fringe] and I'll miss them.Over the five years, we were given the chance to develop some pretty close bonds, both with our characters and personally, and we did.

  John Noble

  Character, Years, Missing

  Source: collider.com

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• I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

  Patrick J. Adams

  People, Rooms, Helping

  Source: collider.com

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• It is those same so-called experts who said we had no chance of winning the primary. It will be hard work, but we can win. And if those same people who fought against me work just as hard for me, we will win.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Hard Work, Winning, People

  Delaware Republican Senate Primary Victory Speech, delivered 14 September 2010

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• I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

  Berenice Marlohe

  Art, Drama, Drawing

  Source: collider.com

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• If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.

  Ayelet Zurer

  Stories, Directors, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere. One of those factors needs to happen. If not, it's sad.

  Ayelet Zurer

  Giving, Interesting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• The Stooges used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff.

  Chris Diamantopoulos

  Kids, Black And White, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.

  Billy Campbell

  Character, Long, Giving

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• Fortunately, I have an amazing partner that allows us to do these different things, who will be directing an episode himself soon, I'm sure. But, it's amazing. I love directing and I think that it allowed me to get closer to the actors and actually work with them on a level that I haven't before, and really get down there with them. I would jump at the chance to do it, anytime I could.

  J.H. Wyman

  Thinking, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Men, Nominations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Cocoons, Touring

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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