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Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another. -- David Blunkett
It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor. -- Leon Askin
Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport! -- Sania Mirza
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
The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it. -- Mara Wilson
If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface. -- Marjane Satrapi
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. -- Ronda Rousey
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory. -- Rory McIlroy
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one. -- Julian Castro
Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book. -- Sela Ward
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up. -- Paul Keating
I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century. -- Nalo Hopkinson
When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything. -- Danica McKellar
I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end. -- Niki Taylor
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City. -- Tom Hiddleston
Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening. -- Jenny Holzer
I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen. -- Jenson Button
I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life. -- Chad Michael Murray
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. -- V. S. Naipaul
Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment. -- Bill Rancic
Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance. -- Jen Hatmaker
Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it. -- Terry Pratchett
You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars? -- Dax Shepard
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly. -- Bear Grylls
You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life. -- Dohee
You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression. -- Meg Wolitzer
I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one? -- Cassandra Clare
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore! -- Thomas Carlyle
We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible. -- Judith Thurman
One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance. -- Nicholas Sparks
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance. -- Victoria Moran
Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise. -- Ed Greenwood
If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun. -- Lindsey Vonn
One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up. -- Stephen Burt
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. -- Dale Carnegie
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different. -- Arthur Goldberg
Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams. -- Derek Sivers
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him. -- Charles Dudley Warner
I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles. -- E. B. White
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. -- Christopher Morley
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind. -- Frederik Pohl
Work hard...have fun...be nice...play fair...dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win. -- Robert Herjavec
I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to givemy best shot. -- Toba Beta
I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot. -- Toba Beta

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