"if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty."
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"Bad chances were better than no chances."
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"Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better."
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"Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning."
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"People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator."
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"It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart."
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"Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness."
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"Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw"
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"Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !"
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"You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact."
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"[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance."
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"It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention."
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"It's kind of ironic that when you look at the evidence of intelligence and so on, a lot of it is anecdotal. A lot of it is, "Well, we saw this dolphin do this extraordinary thing," or, "We screwed up with our apparatus, and then the dolphins did this." And so it seems to me that the more we can actually watch them doing their thing, the better chance we'll have of making some sense of them."
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"Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot."
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"When you've got a solid commitment and solid objectives, you've got a much better chance of reaching your goal."
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"If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance."
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"The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble."
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"The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws."
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"If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here."
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"Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them."
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