Given A Chance Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

  Steve Goodier

  Lying, Eye, Waiting

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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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• Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

  Monty Roberts

  Want, Chance, Action

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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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

  Paul Watson

  Fishing, Would Be, Chance

  "Sea Shepherd: how we sank the Japanese whaling fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that sometimes when things go wrong, it is just an accident. In order to change how we lay blame, we’re going to have to change our over-protective habits; children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.

  Gever Tulley

  Children, Responsibility, Order

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• What kind of motivated me to join the Black Panther Party was that I, along with some of the comrades that I was working with in New York, had heard about the Black Panther Party, and they were doing things that we wanted to do in New York, and we thought that would be a better vehicle than the vehicle that we had going on in New York. They were better organized, and they already had their Ten-Point Platform and Program, and people already heard about them. So we decided that we would join the party, when given a chance.

  Sekou Odinga

  New York, Party, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

  Eva Figes

  Fear, Women, Done

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• I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

  Helen Boosalis

  Believe, Helping Others, People

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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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