Chance Quotes - Page 16

• We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Iran, Community

  Statement by the President on the Framework to Prevent Iran from Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 2, 2015.

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• Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Baby, Kids

  "O'Malley and Sanders interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters in Phoenix" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2015.

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• I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Thinking, Play

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• The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

  Efim Bogoljubov

  Book, People, Chess

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• If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moving, Events, News

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.84, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Success, Gratitude

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• While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.

  Dan Pallotta

  Long, Guilt, Dollars

  Dan Pallotta (2010). “Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential”, p.10, UPNE

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• Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Couple, Divorce, Splits

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• I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

  Frank Scoblete

  Thinking, Vegas, Cities

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• Don't worry, even if you fall over! It's all right. You can just pick yourself up again!
  When you fall over, make the most of the chance to look up and see the sky.
  You will see the blue sky spreading endlessly above you and smiling down.
  Aya, you are alive!

  Aya Kito

  Fall, Sky, Blue

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• You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.

  Tom Stoppard

  Omission, Missing, Too Much

  Source: deadline.com

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• A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Real, Ideas, Rose

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.

  Jennifer Phang

  Sweet, Fun, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Father, Journey

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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• 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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• I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Ideas, People, Giving

  "Exclusive: Deanna Meske & Shirley Shirley MacLaine talk new film 'Elsa & Fred'". Interview with Chasity Saunders, cargocollective.com. October 28, 2014.

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• By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.

  Charles Martin Smith

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

  Voltaire

  Hands, Firsts, Revolution

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• As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

  John Madden

  Family, Jobs, Memories

  John Madden's Enshrinement Speech, www.profootballhof.com. August 5, 2006.

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• We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.

  Thomas Hughes

  Life, Fall, Learning

  Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.69, Litres

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• I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

  Richard Price

  Listening To Music, Knows

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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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• Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

  Bob Marley

  Father, Pity, Hiding

  Bob Marley (2005). “The Very Best of Bob Marley (Songbook)”, p.52, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.

  Dee Brown

  Running, Teacher, Father

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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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