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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Chance favors the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
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"One chance is all you need."
Jesse Owens
"One chance is all you need."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The only safe thing is to take a chance."
Mike Nichols
"The only safe thing is to take a chance."
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"I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation."
Adam Arkin
"I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation."
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Plutarch
"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
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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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"A problem is your chance to do your best."
Duke Ellington
"A problem is your chance to do your best."
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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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"The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later."
Harvey Fierstein
"The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later."
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"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."
Tacitus
"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."
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"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"
Philip Gibbs
"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"
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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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"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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"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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"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
Jimmy Johnson
"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
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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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"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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"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
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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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"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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"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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"I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg."
Dougray Scott
"I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg."
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"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to."
Sarah McLachlan
"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to."
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"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation."
Maurice Ravel
"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation."
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"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
Emily Dickinson
"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
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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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"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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"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
Shania Twain
"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
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"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance."
Jack Dempsey
"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a 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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"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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"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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"My job is to give my team a chance to win."
Nolan Ryan
"My job is to give my team a chance to win."
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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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