"The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real."
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"They're {Marvel] the ones who have went out and bought the comic book whenever it came out. They're the real investors. They serve them. Having a chance to be part of that Marvel Universe is just - well, it is what it is. It's just fantastic."
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"A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one."
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"Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine."
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"I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day."
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"One of the things that makes the uncertainty of death so difficult for us is that we could be involved in a project and then, suddenly, it's cut off. And it's cut off in the midst of our involvement, so that we don't have a chance to see it through, to accomplish what we might accomplish."
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"Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return."
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"The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?"
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"I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart, when ever I step on the floor I play for that person. Also, I always know my grandfather's out there watching."
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"That which takes effect by chance is not an art."
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"Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance."
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"Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge."
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"Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them."
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"What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find."
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"We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I."
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"Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out."
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"Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly."
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"Democracy is the best chance for the best people."
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"The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race"
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"Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes."
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