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Practice means cutting down chance and risk. -- Donnie Burns
Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat. -- Pittacus Lore
To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it! -- Emerson Fittipaldi
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances. -- Patrick Warburton
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. -- Walter Anderson
If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk. -- Hillary Clinton
You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose. -- Randeep Hooda
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. -- Ahmed Chalabi
Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere. -- Iain Duncan Smith
I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That's all I really care about. -- Andie MacDowell
You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well. -- Bill Parcells
I wasn't exactly uncomfortable when I did my first comedy. I was just very aware of the risks; if you do a comedy that sucks, and you suck in it, then you won't get a chance to do it again. -- Donnie Wahlberg
In every operation, there's a risk, and you don't know whether it's gonna... you know, obviously there's that 95% chance, whatever they say, they can never say 100% you're gonna be better. But the concern and the worry is the worst thing. -- Jess Glynne
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. -- Daniel Barenboim
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was. -- Steve Martin
A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles. -- Henry Paulson
Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment. -- Oren Peli
Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything. -- Rachael Taylor
I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment. -- Rick Perry
Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something. -- Tom Brokaw
Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them. -- Barton Gellman
Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from. -- Kelly Clarkson
Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. -- Mary Quant
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. -- Mary Quant
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It`s really worth it. -- Bryan Cranston
A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible. -- Erwin Rommel
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system. -- Joe Baca
After taking risk into account, do more managers than you'd see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.' -- Eugene Fama

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