"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Chance, Court, First, Right

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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

Bobby Knight, American Coach

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"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur, French Scientist

Chance, Favors, Mind, Observation

"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."

Gordon Parks, American Photographer

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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

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"Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound."

Juice Newton, American Musician

Chance, Example, Personality, Sense

"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."

Richard Eyre, British Director

Chance, Fantasy, Reality

"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well."

George Shearing, British Musician

Chance, Night, Play

"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

Charisma Carpenter, American Actress

Chance, Job, Pretty, Sky

"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Chance, Fate, Ignorance, Science

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."

"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

"Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound."

"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."

"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well."

"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."

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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

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"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."

"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."