Chance Quotes - Page 14

• We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

  Jeb Bush

  America, World, Grows

  "The Aug. 6 GOP debate". Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.

  George Soros

  Country, Keys, Long

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Life, Men, Miracle

  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Ch. 1, Sect. 1

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• The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fall, Government, Suffering

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.286, Open Road Media

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• If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Years

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• It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

  Henry Reed

  Spiritual, Sleep, Thinking

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• Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Sorry, Fall, Giving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Heart, Knowing

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• Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

  Bobby Scott

  Fighting, Second Chance, Years

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• From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

  Christopher Morley

  Mean, Eye, Literature

  Christopher Morley (1920). “Travels in Philadelphia”

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• It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Truth, Past

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

  Ai Weiwei

  Exercise, People, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  People, Different, Tasks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.

  Jørgen Leth

  Games, Elements, Done

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance.

  Jørgen Leth

  Editing, Games, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

  Ruth Simmons

  Roots, Innovation, Working Together

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

  Carrie Fisher

  Actors, Yeah, Wanted

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

  Michael Schumacher

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that.

  Freeman Dyson

  Opportunity, Trying, Different

  "Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump towards it, for sure.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Moving, Body, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

  Laura Bush

  Rights, Abuse, Violence

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

  Eric Idle

  Fun, Nice, Moving

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Country, Father

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• There are many actresses that are working longer, because until you change the playing field and make it economically stronger for women, it's very difficult to say no to somebody when that's your only gig. If you're a producer, or if you have more power, you're going to be in a position to know that if you burn that bridge, there'll still be this bridge open. But still - when people ask me 'do you think your politics have decreased your chances of working, I say: 'In Hollywood, most of the prejudice has to do with if you're old or fat.' Power can't forgive that".

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, People, Forgiving

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