"I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance."
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"I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing."
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"Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it."
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"On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like."
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"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences."
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"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings."
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"For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas."
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"If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy."
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"Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign."
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"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it."
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"I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic."
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"Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance."
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"Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you."
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"Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it."
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"Everyone needs a chance to evolve."
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"This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system."
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"I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it."
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"A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise."
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"In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions."
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"I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams."
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