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• I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

  Drew Carey

  People, Speech, Littles

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• I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Harold Pinter (1977). “Plays [of] Harold Pinter”, Methuen

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• You just have to work really hard to tune out the noise and the static. Because it gets louder, and people really have an opinion, and you don't want to shy away from taking chances for fear of what people will say, or living in the wreckage of the future [of] what may be if I do this.

  Jennifer Aniston

  People, Tunes, Shy

  "Jennifer Aniston says she won't let tabloids steal her joy". "Associated Press" Interview, www.cbsnews.com. March 24, 2014.

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• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

  Nicolas Cage

  Believe, Thinking, Careers

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• The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

  Sara Genn

  Mistake, Self, Chance

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• I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

  Edwin Land

  Education, Determination, Men

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• I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Believe, Doors, Live Your Life

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Voice, Musician, Chance

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• A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

  Billy Eichner

  Careers, People, Hollywood

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• For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

  Dree Hemingway

  Mistake, Inspire, Style

  "Dree Hemingway on Her Breakout Film Role in 'Starlet'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. November 9, 2012.

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• If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Temptation, Might

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.135, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

  Judd Apatow

  Trying, Way, Lasts

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

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• Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

  William Ellery Channing

  Love, Form, Aspiration

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• Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. All the guys they are giving these marketing endorsement deals are the ones going out there getting in trouble. That is what is really puzzling to me. They will take a chance on the so call good image guy and they are the ones that go out there and screw it all up. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

  Terrell Owens

  Giving, Guy, Marketing

  "T.O. with Terrell Owens". Interview with Victor Kelly, ca.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

  Alan Arkin

  Fall, Thinking, Risk

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

  Venus Williams

  Moving, Littles, Chance

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• I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Games, Mad

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• I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.

  Chris Rock

  Greatness, Different, Want

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

  Patrick Warburton

  Believe, Independent, Trying

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

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• Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Change, Business, Block

  Thomas J. Watson (1963). “A business and its beliefs: the ideas that helped build IBM.”

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• There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

  Christopher Walken

  Careers, People, Able

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