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Chance Quotes
"Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."
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"I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better."
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"Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance."
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"One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance."
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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."
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"Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great."
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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."
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"The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail."
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"I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance."
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"The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week."
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"I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen."
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"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
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"As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it."
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"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."
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"I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all."
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"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors."
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"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment."
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"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."
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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."
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"Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start."
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"And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite."
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"But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance."
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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."
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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!"
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"You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones."
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"Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place."
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"I don't really get a chance to watch much television."
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"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."
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"I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened."
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"We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA."
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"I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall."
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