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• So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

  Michael Curtiz

  Mother, Speech, Bridesmaids

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• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

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• Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'

  Paul Samuelson

  Giving Up, Self Confidence, Thinking

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• There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together it wasn't. And there are a lot of movies that, for one reason or another, just don't become popular. So to me it's always been a little bit of a roll of the dice. That's the way it goes.

  Christopher Walken

  Cutting, Together, Littles

  Source: the-talks.com

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• DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Heart, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.921, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Believe, Thinking, Games

  "What It Takes to Make a Great Movie" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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• So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Determination, Succeed, Energy

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• Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up. Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business had failed to catch fire.

  Naveen Jain

  Jobs, Apples, Departed

  "Dear CEOs, Celebrate Failure" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2011.

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• When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

  Artie Lange

  Careers, Political, Clay

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

  Emily Giffin

  Blow, Thinking, Land

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• In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

  Pat Conroy

  Thinking, Parent, Forgiving

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.976, Open Road Media

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• Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Guy, Lost

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

  Stephen King

  Running, Eye, Snakes

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

  Upton Sinclair

  Taken, Men, Games

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing

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• I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

  Jim Parrack

  Dream, Teacher, School

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• But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

  George Harrison

  Travel, Pay The Price, Car

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• Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

  Richard Dyer

  Playing Games, Casinos, Stills

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• Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Uzbekistan, Long, Problem

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• RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Player, Politics, Loaded

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (2000). “The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires”, p.235, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels on every lot, and no matter how often it tossed the dice you just knew it would never land on Go to Jail, it would be forever passing Go and collecting $200.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.220, Bantam

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• It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

  Kevin McKidd

  Mean, Looks, Paper

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• But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

  Eugene Levy

  Night, Thinking, Sea

  "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by atherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

  Michael McMillian

  Tv Shows, Issues, Four

  "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

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• I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Want, Comedy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Brother, Hate

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