Given A Chance Quotes - Page 2

• I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

  Donald Sutherland

  Dirty, Play, Careers

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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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, Chance, Youth

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• You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

  Bill Wyman

  Song, Frustrated, Albums

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• You have to have quarterbacks who can keep up with everybody else. And I'm not saying that just black quarterbacks can do that, but more black quarterbacks are given a chance because they fit the mold.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Black, Mold, Chance

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• The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

  John Ensign

  People, Voting, President

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• Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.

  Clarence Page

  Years, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

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• I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of Star Wars - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.

  Ricky Schroder

  Stars, War, Drama

  "Q&A – Rick Schroder (Blood Done Sign My Name) Loves Sci-Fi Movies and Fast Zombies". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

  Tiger Woods

  Positive, Thinking, Light

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• There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

  Marlee Matlin

  Doors, Feet, People

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• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• ...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

  Ishmael Beah

  Children, Resilience, Suffering

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Fall, Trying

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• It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

  Frank Duff

  Health, Body, Littles

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• Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Forgiveness, Chance, Perpetrators

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books

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• then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long time. It was as if they were dancing. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sight, Long, Dancing

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• If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

  Rob Payne

  Journey, Legs, Chance

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.

  John Updike

  Book, Hands, Numbers

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.

  Megan Fox

  Hero, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Government, Average, People

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

  Brad Pitt

  Actors, Chance, Given

  "Brad Pitt: 'I Would Love to Work in A Bollywood Film'" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

  Eric Burdon

  Years, Battle, Golden

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• The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help
  before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Believe, Responsibility

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I was given a chance and I took it.

  Maria Kirilenko

  Chance, Given

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• Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

  Ron Greenwood

  Funny Soccer, Chance, Life Is

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• People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

  David Bowie

  Feet, People, Ladders

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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