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"Events are not a matter of chance."
Gamal Abdel Nasser
"Events are not a matter of chance."
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"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch."
Jose Mourinho
"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch."
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"It takes one person to give you a big chance."
Patricia Velasquez
"It takes one person to give you a big chance."
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"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."
Jan Garbarek
"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."
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"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."
Arsene Wenger
"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."
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"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."
Wislawa Szymborska
"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."
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"Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles."
Namie Amuro
"Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles."
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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
Abigail Adams
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
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"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."
Kenny Baker
"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."
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"Chance favors the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
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"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
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"I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week."
Claudio Reyna
"I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week."
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"Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute."
Keith Jarrett
"Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute."
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"One chance is all you need."
Jesse Owens
"One chance is all you need."
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"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."
Robert Altman
"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."
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"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
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"Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship."
Laura Schlessinger
"Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship."
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"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."
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"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."
Richard Pryor
"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."
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"I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old."
Billie Holiday
"I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old."
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"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."
Constantine Karamanlis
"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."
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"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."
Alois Brunner
"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryant
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved."
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"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."
Rick Wagoner
"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."
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"I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond."
Will Estes
"I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond."
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"With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get."
Jo Brand
"With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get."
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"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."
W. G. Sebald
"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."
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"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
Harrison Ford
"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
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"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."
Ambrose Bierce
"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."
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"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
Frank Moore Colby
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
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"You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance."
Tracey Gold
"You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance."
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"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."
Paul Simon
"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."
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"I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way."
Carly Fiorina
"I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way."
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"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."
John Polkinghorne
"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."
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"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
Baltasar Gracian
"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
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"The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed."
Brian McKnight
"The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed."
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"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
"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."
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"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."
Flip Wilson
"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."
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"There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories."
Mac Davis
"There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories."
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"We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer."
Robbie Keane
"We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer."
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"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors."
George Brett
"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors."
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"The only safe thing is to take a chance."
Mike Nichols
"The only safe thing is to take a chance."
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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
Deyth Banger
"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
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"Ain't no chance if you don't take it."
Guy Clark
"Ain't no chance if you don't take it."
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"We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product."
Bing Crosby
"We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product."
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"This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it."
Bruce Babbitt
"This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it."
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"Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance."
King George V
"Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance."
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"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."
Thomas Fuller
"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."
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"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."
Uta Hagen
"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."
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"I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living."
Shelley Fabares
"I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living."
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