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Chance Quotes


"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them."


"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."


"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."


"If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record."


"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."


"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."


"I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game."



"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."


"You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know."



"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."


"I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition."


"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another."


"Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie."


"Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice."


"When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance."


"The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me."


"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."


"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."


"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed."


"Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard."


"I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the ."


"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."


"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve."


"This party is full of stars. They will all have their chance to shine."


"You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points."


"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."


"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."
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