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“If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.”

Ifs Real Chance Chances Are

Author:Rob Reiner

“The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. Its a very loud title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.”

People Giving Mean Shows Remember Names Chance Forever Connections Towns Great Things Titles Loud Turned Off Cougars

Author:Dan Byrd

“Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?”

Three Chance Millions Crazy Contracts Layers Playoffs

Author:Mark Cuban

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

Source: Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

“I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. Its just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.”

Ifs Way Giving Has Beens Helping Shows Might Form Universe Chance Wonderful Asking Brands Help Me New Life Show Business Take A Chance Brand New

Author:Louie Anderson

“I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.”

Important Stories Body Chance Directors Tension Hereafter Belgians Choose Me French Movies

Author:Cecile de France

“I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!”

Want Trying Mean Play Given Chance Acting Roles Plans Machines Strings Bows New Things

Author:Vinnie Jones

“I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.”

Years Home Form Three Left Parent Chance Football Needed Balls Three Years Divorced Second Chance

Author:Vinnie Jones

“I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.”

Feels Chance Tvs Right Now Lucky Another Chance

Author:Nick Wechsler

“The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.”

Chance Greater Policy Evolve Guidance Appropriate Participants Central Banks Inference

Author:Ben Bernanke

“As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.”

Thinking Chance Gun Rose Reunion Guns N Roses

Author:Slash

“Life is full of chances. Take it lightly.”

Life Is Chance Shinee

Author:Kim Jong-hyun

“Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.”

Purpose Song Chance Audience Stage Emotional Singing Starting Performing Connecting Performing On Stage

Author:Naturi Naughton

“Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.”

People Ifs Feels Should Kind Stills Ideas Different Stories Dream Process Chance Rooms Honest Structure Abstract Different Things Filmmaking Stay True

Book:David Lynch: Interviews

Source: David Lynch: Interviews

“I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.”

Thinking Way Made Would Be Courses Chance Lord Rings Peter

Author:Andy Serkis

“I feel very responsible for my brother, and I try and protect him every chance I get.”

Feels Trying Chance Brother Protect Responsible My Brother

Author:Charlie Tahan

“I tell you to keep going, not because it's easy. Not because it doesn't hurt. I tell you to keep going because there's no other way. To stop is to die. Life is in motion. In growth. In change. Life is in seeking and in finding. Life is in redemption. Each moment is a new birth. A new chance to come back, to get it right. A new chance to make it better.”

Way Moments Life Is Dies Easy Growth Hurt Chance Birth Findings Seeking Redemption Life Changing Keep Going

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.”

Hands Would Be Choices Chance Cases Modern Consequence Historical Conservative Careful Good Man Museums Probability Take A Chance Audacious

Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.”

Heart Purpose Chance Chances Are

Book:The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

“I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.”

World Trying I Can Facts Waiting Chance Around The World Sail Try Again

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.”

Ifs Should Trying Persons Winning Left Chance Sin Risk Elements Tragedy Finished Caution Avoided

Book:The power of money dynamics

Source: The power of money dynamics

“there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.”

People Grows Chance Climate California Old People Scenery

Author:Inez Haynes Irwin

“It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.”

Ideas Chance Gone Paper Mad Plague

Author:Inez Haynes Irwin

“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.”

“The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.”

Long Happens Certain Water Chance White Numbers Eating Tragedy Tables Faults Dinner Accidents Coffee Percentages Chances Are Lurking Jelly Dinner Table Snowy

Book:Etiquette Every Child Should Know

Source: Etiquette Every Child Should Know

“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.”

Soul Ends Desire Passion Winning Chance Fire Blood Position Cost Sick Increase Madness Fortune Setting Settings Ties Gambling Stakes Family Ties

Author:Matilde Serao

“One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.”

Source: The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

“When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are fresh meat, and people will meet you and give you a chance.”

People Giving Chance Position Meat

Author:Judi Shekoni

“I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.”

Giving Trying Ends Lasts Chance Acting Months Needed Decided Quitting Loser Try Again Last Chance

Author:Judi Shekoni

“There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.”

People Shows Chance Smart South Brilliant Smart People

Author:Ice Cube

“I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.”

Trying Chance Accents Auditions Always Trying Scottish Scots

Author:Callum Keith Rennie

“I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.”

Dream School Chance Mines Theater

Author:Matthew Settle

“When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.”

Jobs Chance Percent Grateful So Grateful

Author:Paul Schneider

“I like to just hang out. My friends dont like to do that, but I do. Because, a lot of times Im busy, and I just kind of like to get a chance to just hang out.”

Kind Chance My Friends Busy Hanging Out

Author:Jenna Boyd

“You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.”

Ifs Joy Chance Greater Possibility Take A Chance

Author:Walter Inglis Anderson

“I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.”

Thinking Kind Chance Taken Rights Movement Pure Connections Slavery Civil Rights African American Formal Civil Rights Movement

Author:Herbie Hancock

“I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.”

Ifs Thinking Made Chance Fame Connected Halls Hall Of Fame Steroid

Author:Pete Rose

“A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.”

I Can Together Chance Interesting Music Break Records Music Is Working Together Touring Back Together Together Again

Author:John Lennon

“Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.”

Earth Motivation Chance Protection Another Chance

Author:Steve Earle

“I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.”

Ifs I Can Humor Political Chance Havens Bills Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“I assured the prime minister, my administration will work hard to lay the foundation of peace in the Middle - to work with our nations in the Middle East, give peace a chance. Secondly, I told him that our nation will not try to force peace, that we'll facilitate peace and that we will work with those responsible for a peace.”

“I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a - she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department.”

Believe Humor Hands Political Asks Chance Interesting Havens Perspective Fine Labor Department Questioning Secretary Political Humor Chavez

Author:George W. Bush

“Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.”

Littles Chance Couple Deceiving Chances Are Hype Savvy I Trust You Conning Can I Trust You

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“You're going to lose it when you follow the world "feel" with the words "because I think". Any time you are thinking, your chance of getting what you need is greatly decreased, especially when you follow the word "think" with the word "you". I predict you won't only not get heard, but I predict a defensive aggressive reaction.”

Thinking World Needs Feels Loses Chance Heard Communication Reactions Aggressive Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.”

Chance Talent Ran Tonight Championship Nba Championships

Author:LeBron James

“I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.”

Turns Games Chance Situation Plans Draws Decided Thirds Stronger Freshman God Has A Plan

Author:Robert Griffin III

“For 60 years you gave chance to Shasaks, now I request you to give a Sevak 60 months. I say give me 60 months and we will give you a life of peace and happiness.”

Giving Years Politics Chance Months India Give Me Request Peace And Happiness

Author:Narendra Modi

“So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.”

Ifs Needs Shows Justice Chance Economic Movement Models Climate Climate Change Global Warming Urgent Responding Economic Systems Economic Models

Author:Naomi Klein

“When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.”

Wells Lasts Parent Chance Gone Reconciliation Mourn Last Chance

Author:Joan M. Drury

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