Chance Quotes - Page 20

• Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

  David Paul

  Home, Sleep, Rivers

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• It's a chance for people to understand where we came from.

  Amadou Bagayoko

  People

  "'It's a chance to understand where we came from'". Interview with Robin Denselow, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  David Edward

  Self, Common Sense, People

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• If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

  Douglas Lain

  Princess, Mean, Winning

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• I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a world outside Japan too. For me, it's an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audiences to my films. But for me as a director, my attitude towards making films hasn't changed with the fame. I feel it's not good to change as a person anyway

  Takashi Miike

  Attitude, Japan, People

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

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• I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.

  Adam Wainwright

  "Wainwright: Achilles rehab has gone 'perfectly', bullpen stint in reach", www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2015.

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• A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Law, Criticism

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• Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Cute, Moving, Lists

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• Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Mistake, Stupid

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• Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.

  Margo Kaufman

  Money, Talking, Investment

  Margo Kaufman (1997). “This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America”, Dell Books

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• The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

  Mary Harron

  Style, Trying, Directors

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

  Angela Lansbury

  Actresses, Theater, Stage

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.

  Angela Lansbury

  Sublime, Roles, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want to be with the man who wants to open a movie studio with me and make films for new, fresh filmmakers who aren't getting a chance somewhere else. I haven't yet had that type of partnership in a romantic relationship.

  Drew Barrymore

  Men, Somewhere Else, Want

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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• I always loved to cook and entertain but I realized I had the chance to be successful with something that I am passionate about.

  Lorena Garcia

  Successful, Passionate, Cooks

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• Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Helping Others, Thinking

  "Laura Bush, Melinda Gates, CARE President on Women’s Issues, U.S. Foreign Aid". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries and they'll be less reliant on the developed world for help.

  Laura Bush

  Country, People, Giving

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• The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

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• Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

  John Marston

  Men, Every Man

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• If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving Up, Youth, Given

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• If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Opposites, Ideas

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• If you have a lane, you have a chance.

  Mark Spitz

  Lanes, Ifs

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• There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

  Jill McCorkle

  Choices

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• You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

  Mike Trout

  Thinking, Bats, Balls

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