Chance Quotes - Page 32

• There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.

  John Lennon

  Football, America, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

  Emile Chartier

  Horror Stories, People, Upset

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• Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.

  Bill Crawford

  Choices

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• A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

  Criss Jami

  Ambition, People, Way

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

  David Gilmour

  Determined, Life Is, Dues

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• There is irreducible chance in the universe.

  David Gilmour

  Universe

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• You only get one chance of an England debut.

  Alan Shearer

  England, One Chance, Debut

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• Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

  Richard Wiseman

  Opportunity, People, Lucky

  Richard Wiseman (2004). “Change Your Luck: The Scientific Way to Improve Your Life”, American Media (CA)

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• Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!

  Joel Comm

  Creative Juices, Flow, Creative

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• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

  John Milton

  Spring, Book, Men

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

  William Barclay

  Simple, Giving, World

  William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

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• We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Justice, Trying, Demand

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.175, Shambhala Publications

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• I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.

  Robin Williams

  Fun, Kids, Wrestling

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• Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

  Greg Norman

  Play, Shots, Wells

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• Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob? Absolutely no chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a 'No' by the way. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Thinking, Agreement, Viruses

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's best quotes". www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2013.

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• It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Done, Half, Next

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• If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Pain, Quality, Combination

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• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.

  Sam Walton

  Years, Opposites, Long

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• The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

  Walt Whitman

  Missing, Fruition, Inevitable

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.137, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.

  Behdad Sami

  Worry, Negative

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• I never had a plan B. I feel if u have a plan B, you are giving yourself the chance to never accomplish plan A. My plan B was to accomplish plan A.

  Behdad Sami

  Giving, Plan B, Accomplish

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Son, Interesting, Stuff

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• I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.

  Arda Turan

  Football, Stopping, Ifs

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