Chance Quotes - Page 40

• I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

  Nina Simone

  Alive, Feels

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Musician

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• In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

  Ian Bremmer

  Government, People, Battle

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

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• We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.

  Joy Bryant

  Country, Rights, Usa

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• If you give me the chance and give me your vote I will protect America from the wars that are being brought to our door step.

  Chris Christie

  War, Doors, America

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.

  Randall Robinson

  Thinking, Class, Space

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• The vast majority of Americans want a government that creates the conditions for them to have a chance to get into the middle class, the kind of growth and the kind of educational opportunities. Most people would - the vast majority of Americans would much rather have a job that pays more than a welfare check.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Educational, Opportunity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

  Zach Condon

  Years, Albums, Next

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• The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

  Claire McCaskill

  College, Should, Sexually

  Source: www.elle.com

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• People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.

  Immortal Technique

  Law, Knowing, People

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.

  Morris Chestnut

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "'The Best Man Holiday' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Growing Up, School, People

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• We all get out, maybe for longer than we wish, because we all pass this mortal coil more or less and so we certainly get a chance to experience it again, and we've experienced it before we were born. So it's more or less our natural place of being, unless you believe that the only time you're conscious is when you're alive.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Believe, Wish, Alive

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If we take our youth seriously, provide tools to strengthen their natural prowess, and empower them to make the changes they want to see in the world, then this planet and her creatures have the chance to heal and flourish.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Empowering, Tools, World

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Baby, Zero

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Party, Believe, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

  Kevin Hart

  Company You Keep, Careers, De Niro

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• There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who may stand just as good a chance of landing the part.

  Daniel Craig

  Names, Actors, May

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• Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

  Henry Ford

  Next, Next Time

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• Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. The time you spend living in fear is time you cannot spend living in love. The time you spend hiding and retreating from life is time you cannot spend growing and advancing and achieving.

  Ralph Marston

  Shining, Growing, Problem

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• I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Thinking, Firsts, Curry

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• On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Drama, White, Imagination

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

  Bella Thorne

  Texas, Giving, Directors

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Believe, Winning, People

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• If you chance your focus - you will change your life.

  Bill Bartmann

  Focus, Changing Your Life, Ifs

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