"There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing."
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"You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it."
"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition)."
"It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art."
"Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive."
"Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages."
"Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew."
"Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion."
"In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer."
"There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string."
"I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it."
"Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential"
"In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself."
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
"She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet."
"Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new."
"I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him."
"Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied."
"I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself."
"Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God."