- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chance Quotes
What opens up when you take one.
This set treats chance as both opportunity and loss, from skipping formal training to sidestep rejection to the freedom found in stepping over a line and taking a real risk. It connects to our Destiny quotes for readers drawn to that bigger-picture theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people don't want to know, but I'd like to know if I have a 10 percent or a 90 percent chance of developing Alzheimer's some day. If I know I'm likely to develop it, I'm certainly going to start looking around right now to find if there is something that I can do to offset it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not support the U.S. decision to intervene with military force in Libya. The evidence was not persuasive that a large-scale massacre or genocide was either likely or imminent. Policies other than military intervention were never given a full chance.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance to work with them.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cry every chance I get.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.
- Insight
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.
- Detained
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020