Chance Quotes - Page 33

• Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reading, Facts, Remember

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures”, p.25, MIT Press

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• I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Matter, Suits, Libel

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• By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

  Michael Caine

  Oscars, Seventies

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• Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.

  H. C. Moolenburgh

  Running, Angel, People

  H. C. Moolenburgh (1995). “Meetings with angels: a hundred and one real-life encounters”

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• Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

  Fred A. Hartley, Jr.

  Second Chance, Giving, Repentance

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• Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

  Henry Rollins

  Division, Profit

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• When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Safe, Boeing

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• The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Imagination, Mind

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

  Shirley Temple

  Girl, Proud, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there.

  John Muir

  Special, World, May

  John Muir (2012). “Travels in Alaska”, p.61, The Floating Press

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• I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

  Penn Jillette

  Evil, Hypocrisy, Doe

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• It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• I'm against gun control. It's not that I like guns, it's just that allowing Americans to have guns will increase the chances that a bunch of rednecks will blow each other's heads off.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Redneck, Blow, Gun

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• Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Real, Opportunity, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 20, 2013

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• How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blow, Wind, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics

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• When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Years, Mysterious Universe

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• This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

  Anne Frank

  Wish, Hollywood, Looks

  "Anne Frank's final entry" by Francine Prose, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2014.

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• The way I photograph... in many ways it's directed by chance and all my mistakes, which are often the best stuff. I found that no matter if it's the same tape, the same TV, and the same camera, I can never duplicate an image... your arm jiggles, there's just too much chance. And I never put it on pause, or use any of that fancy equipment.

  John Waters

  Mistake, Arms, Fancy

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• You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

  Bill Cosby

  Winning, Lightning, Tickets

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• I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Past, Enjoy

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• The chances of someone who looks like Jesus having pot raises steadily, to a point. If the guy is on a cross you may have the wrong guy.

  Demetri Martin

  Jesus, Guy, Looks

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• I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Tough Times, Care

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• If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Writing, Comedian, Littles

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.31, Zondervan

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• At first the difference will be in whatever atmosphere I bring into it. It's not going to be like, 'I really want to do The Daily Show and I'd love to turn it into an abstract musical.' I like the format and the chance to satirize the news.

  Jon Stewart

  Differences, Atmosphere, Musical

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