"The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person."
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"Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences."
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"If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?"
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"Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today."
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"Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face."
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"Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us."
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""Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do."
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"Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!"
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"For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union."
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"The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of."
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"Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world."
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"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
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"Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows."
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"Die before you die, there is no chance after."
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"Everyone behaves badly--given the chance."
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"Wasn't that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone in the history of Hollywood? And some days I didn't know with whom I'd be standing face-to-face, and I was so impressed because they were all really wonderful people. And when you work with Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, George Sanders as Mr. Freeze, it's a wonderful experience."
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"Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice."
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"...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind."
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"We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule."
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"Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]"
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