"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone."

Chance, End, Spirit

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"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone."

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"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

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"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

Chuck Jones, American Director

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"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

Emily Bronte, English Novelist

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"I don't give players a chance to hit me."

Eric Dickerson, American Athlete

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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over."

William Odom, American Soldier

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"More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had."

Jon Stewart, American Entertainer

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"I jump at any chance to go back into theater."

Taye Diggs, American Actor

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"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."

Sydney Smith, English Clergyman

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"But this was my chance to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing was going to stop me."

Jack Youngblood, American Athlete

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"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to."

Communication

"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."

Responsibility

"A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper."

People

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."

Disappointment

"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."

Needs

"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."

Thought

"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."

Painting

"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."

Quality

"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design."

Design

"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it."

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