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“Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!”

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Author:Christine Lahti

“The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it’ll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.”

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Author:Ronda Rousey

“The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.”

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Author:Laurence Fishburne

“A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP.”

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Author:David Letterman

“One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.”

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Author:Evan Esar

“I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is the story of zero to 6 million. It has already happened! And we’re not paying attention! That’s incredible. That’s what had one chance in a million and it already happened.”

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Author:Wences Casares

“The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.”

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Author:Ronald Fisher

“In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.”

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Author:David Gemmell

“I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.”

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Author:Craig Venter

“Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.”

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Book:The Mystery of Golf

Source: The Mystery of Golf

“It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.”

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Author:Alex Gaskarth

“Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?”

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Author:Gail Godwin

“When we talk about climate, we need to do everything we can to set the stage before the actors come on. And they may only have one chance at success. We should keep thinking: How do we maximize that chance of success?”

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Author:David Titley

“I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.”

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Author:Jane Goodall

“You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.”

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Author:Bear Grylls

“To be sure, not all moments are equally fleeting. Some moments last longer than others. And certain events do reoccur more than once and even recur repeatedly. Sometimes you do get more than one chance. Sometimes you don't. It helps to know how long a window of opportunity you have and if you'll get another chance.”

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Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Take a chance! All life is a chance”

Source: How to enjoy your life and your job

“You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.”

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Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.”

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Author:Jennifer Grant

“You have only one chance to raise your child.”

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Author:Jackie Kennedy

“One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.”

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Author:Ted Ligety

“That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.”

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Author:Amy Sedaris

“The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.”

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Book:The Taming of Chance

Source: The Taming of Chance