Chance Quotes - Page 40

• On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Drama, White, Imagination

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

  Sharon Stone

  Careers, Middle, Another Life

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• My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

  Bella Thorne

  Texas, Giving, Directors

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Believe, Winning, People

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• Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My smile grows even bigger when I think about how lucky I am to have such delights be part of my everyday life.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Thinking, Everyday, Lucky

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. September 24, 2015.

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• Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

  Rene Magritte

  Believe, Departure, World

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• If you chance your focus - you will change your life.

  Bill Bartmann

  Focus, Changing Your Life, Ifs

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• I know that there are scores of people plotting to kill me, and this is not difficult to understand. After all, did we not seize power by plotting against our predecessors? However, I am far cleverer than they are. I know they are conspiring to kill me long before they actually start planning to do it. This enables me to get them before they have the faintest chance of striking at me.

  Saddam Hussein

  Long, People, Planning

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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• When people screw up, give them a second chance.

  Richard Branson

  Second Chance, People, Giving

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• Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

  Dylan Thomas

  Second Chance, Tomorrow, Inspirational Good Night

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• We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.

  Mark Cuban

  Real, Tuition, Stuff

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• If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?

  Jack Ma

  Ifs, Knows

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• You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.

  Anthony Bennett

  Persevere, Failing, Ifs

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• If given a really great chance, I'm going to put it away every single time.

  Abby Wambach

  Given, Really Great, Ifs

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• No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

  Lil Wayne

  Giving, Take A Chance

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• No theory changes what it is a theory about. Nothing is changed because we look at it, talk about it, or analyze it in a new way. Keats drank confusion to Newton for analyzing the rainbow, but the rainbow remained as beautiful as ever and became for many even more beautiful. Man has not changed because we look at him, talk about him, and analyze him scientifically. ... What does change is our chance of doing something about the subject of a theory. Newton's analysis of the light in a rainbow was a step in the direction of the laser.

  B. F. Skinner

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.

  Garrison Keillor

  Beautiful, Winning, Men

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• The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

  Thomas Sowell

  America, Live Your Own Life

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• Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

  Karl Popper

  Optimism, Responsible, Duty

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• As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.

  Renita J. Weems

  Giving, Silence, Depth

  Renita J. Weems (2000). “Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

  Dennis Prager

  Numbers, Design, Enough Time

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• Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

  Georg Solti

  Believe, Numbers, World

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• If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

  Russell Peters

  Thinking, Loud, Shows

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• It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch with Prime Minister Berlusconi.... I think Italy and the U. S. have a very strong friendship and relationship, and I'm proud of that.

  Laura Bush

  Strong, Thinking, Lunch

  "Laura Bush Arrives at Olympics". www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2006.

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• Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

  John McCain

  War, Ambition, Giving

  "Senate approves Iraq war resolution". www.cnn.com. October 11, 2002.

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