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• It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

  James Hillman

  Half, World, Chance

  "The Myth Of Therapy". Interview With Sy Safransky, www.thesunmagazine.org. April 1991.

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• Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

  Katherine Paterson

  Publishing House, Firsts, Accepting

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

  Cale Yarborough

  Chance, Ifs

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• Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

  Corita Kent

  Chance, Mankind, Stills

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• You have to take chances.

  Matt Sorum

  Chance

  "Guns and Roses Matt Sorum on Passion and Compassion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm always surprised when you do something very different that people don't get behind you more, because you're always told, "Take chances! Stretch!" And when you do it, sometimes people get really supportive and excited, but sometimes people go at you because you've tossed out the formula.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Supportive, Different

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• We are risk averse by nature - but the only way you can reach your full potential is by taking chances. Understand that you are capable of far more than you've achieved, believe that you have something of value to share with the world, and take care to step outside of your comfort zone and into your greatness. Your courage will inspire others to do the same.

  Les Brown

  Believe, Greatness, Inspire

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• Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!

  Vera Nazarian

  Clouds, Patterns, Different

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• During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

  Bob Graham

  War, Aggravation, Listening

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• Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

  Will Oldham

  Cds, Looks, Chance

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• Directors like William Friedkin (Killer Joe), Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike) and Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) got in touch with me and wanted me to be part of their films. That was a whole new chapter for me. I didn’t chase any of those films and it made me think that I was right to take a chance, say no to the kind of thing I had grown tired of doing, and wait until something good came around. And it did.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Tired, Thinking, Waiting

  "All-american? no more". IN Magazine Interview, inmagazine.ca. December 23, 2013.

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• I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.

  RuPaul

  Games, People, Chance

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight against the French in the Algerian war - first requires convincing an editor to take a chance on them, which very few like to do these days.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  War, School, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing world take a chance on you? I don't believe that you need an MFA to be a writer, but I do think you need to take some good workshops.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.

  Max Irons

  Silly, Rainbow, Gold

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• You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

  Terence

  Men, Debt, Pay

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• The only safe thing is to take a chance.

  Elaine May

  Movie, Inspiring, Safe

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• I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.

  Jim Henson

  Running, Impact, Risk

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• The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fall, Government, Suffering

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.286, Open Road Media

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• To be successful, one must take chances.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Successful, Chance

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• If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Answers, Chance

  "Trust". Song by Nasir Jones (Nas), Matthew Jehu Samuels (Boi-1da), Jamaal Anwar Sublett and Matthew Raymond Burnett, July 13, 2012.

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• There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

  Eric Ries

  Numbers, Support, Entrepreneur

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• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

  Max Eastman

  Laughter, Pain, Humor

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• For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.

  Dave Kikoski

  Music, Chance, Jazz

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• The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Music, Chance, Jazz

  "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

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