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• Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Favors

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• Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

  Patti Smith

  Adventure, Fate, Design

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• I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  Jumping, Use, Done

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• You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

  Max Lucado

  Positive, Success, Confidence

  Max Lucado (2009). “Let the Journey Begin: God's Roadmap for New Beginnings”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Realizing, Circumstances, Presenting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

  Maya Angelou

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

  Tyrone Power

  People, Car, Wish

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• When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

  Susan Sarandon

  Running, Car, Pleasant Surprises

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• A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Technology, People

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

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• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

  Clark Gable

  Stars, Eight, Wind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

  Ajay Naidu

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong... I mean, who shot the drapes?

  Colin Mochrie

  Mean, Names, People

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• When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, Mph, Drunk

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• There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.

  Pablo Larrain

  Brother, Ideas, Exactly Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?

  Debbie Ford

  Believe, Order, Camouflage

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• You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Littles, Might

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• My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

  Alan Rickman

  Parent, Kind, Theater

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• Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, War, Rights

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• I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Thinking, Self, Somewhere Else

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.129, Three Rivers Press

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• But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

  Eva Mendes

  Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.

  Jerry Mander

  Television, Environment, Conspiracy

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• I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Thinking

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• When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong.
  In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain;
  more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

  Carole Bouquet

  Strong, Pain, Loss

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• I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

  Eva Mendes

  Opposites, Careers, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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