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• The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Favors, Ifs

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• Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

  Jessica Lange

  Fall, Directors, Actors

  Interview with Ann Roth, April 2006.

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• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  J. Cole

  Underdog, Beats, Feels

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• The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.

  Clark Gable

  Mother, Self Esteem, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.286, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ideas, Lightning, Diagrams

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Favors, Planning

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• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Success, Meaningful

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• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

  Theodore Roethke

  Positive, Positivity, Soul

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.341, Anchor

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• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Perfect, Doing Me

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• Never tell me the odds!

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Business, War

  The Empire Strikes Back (motion picture) (1980).

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• Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Gambling, Succeed

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead act 3 (1967)

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• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  Hannah Arendt

  Law, Miracle, Everyday

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

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• If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Children

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• The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Fans, Liverpool

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

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• You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

  George Steinbrenner

  Baseball, Horse, Gambling

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• Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

  Zachary Levi

  Girl, Princess, Hero

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• So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

  Emily Levine

  Motivation, Inspiration, Reading

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• The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

  Paul Dickson

  Tunnels, Light, Six

  Washingtonian November 1978

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• I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Running, Jobs

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• I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Looks, Polls

  "Gingrich's Unconventional White House Bid: A Retrospective". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  Zac Efron

  Thinking, Careers, Long

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

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• Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

  Robert Winston

  Men, Common Purpose, Giving

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Cancer, Numbers, Smoking

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