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You have to take chances. -- Matt Sorum
I like when people take chances. -- Josh Homme
Losers take chances; winners make choices. -- Denis Waitley
I like when people take chances. -- Josh Homme
I think it's important to take chances. -- David Sedaris
To be successful, one must take chances. -- Willie Stargell
Our lives improve only when we take chances. -- Walter Inglis Anderson
When we are on tour we also take chances. -- Jan Garbarek
You only get a short life, so take chances. -- John Galliano
You gotta take chances in this life or you're alreadydead. -- Megan McCafferty
Nobody gives you a chance, you got to take chances. -- Lil Wayne
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances. -- Madeleine Peyroux
If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers. -- Nas
The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances. -- Thelonious Monk
If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life. -- Michael Spinks
No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances. -- Lil Wayne
I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash. -- Magic Johnson
Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny. -- Mel Brooks
Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances! -- Joel Comm
I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own. -- Norman Reedus
I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions. -- Paul Walker
Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground. -- Phil Knight
being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you. -- Simone Elkeles
Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk. -- Nicky Hilton
People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them. -- Jason Statham
I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances. -- Chazz Palminteri
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. -- Ann Rule
You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances -- Bobby Fischer
If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances. -- Mario Andretti
You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances. -- Kathleen Flinn
Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances. -- Mithun Chakraborty
Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances. -- John Havlicek
Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you. -- Ellen Hopkins
This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances. -- Ronnie Milsap
You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy. -- Walter Inglis Anderson
Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time. -- Jean Smart
It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star. -- Biz Stone
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great. -- Kay Ryan
Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances -- Bob Dylan
If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances. -- Rob Lowe
I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts. -- Teddy Pendergrass
There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds. -- Jewel
Dare to take chances. Dare to take the path less traveled.You may never know where the path may lead you. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one -- Laura Berg
I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances. -- Carmen Electra
I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit. -- Cybill Shepherd
Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take. -- Daniel Kahneman
I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon. -- Megan Mullally
A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes. -- Ha-Joon Chang
When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory. -- Richard J. Corman
I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go. -- Michael B. Jordan
Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years. -- Nancy Reagan
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
Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again -- Suzanne Collins
We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different. -- Horace Silver
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. -- Madeleine Peyroux
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
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married. -- Alec Baldwin
I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet. -- Auliq Ice
Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy. -- Paul Walker
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. -- Darren Aronofsky
I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear. -- Nicolas Cage
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets. -- Bernard Cornwell
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets." -- Bernard Cornwell
I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances. -- Kim Cattrall
I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness. -- Chris Rock
I experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. I'm a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I have the balls to take chances. -- Nicki Minaj
There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything. -- Brian Griese
The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service. -- Jim Rohn
Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough. -- Larry Osborne
People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the land of willpower, anything is possible. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time. -- Judd Apatow
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians. -- Dave Brubeck
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success. -- Napoleon Hill
I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. -- Lily Tomlin
If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks. -- Daniel Woodrell
I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene. -- Patrick Warburton
Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot. -- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge. -- Drew Carey
You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person. -- Nathan Crowley
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. -- Lee Ann Womack
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds. -- Jewel
I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing. -- Moon Bloodgood
It's all a bit of a gamble, mate. That's all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don't take chances. -- Melina Marchetta
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. -- Suzanne Farrell
One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation. -- Sam Levenson
I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive. -- Robert Redford
I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit. -- Tom Scholz
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway. -- Danny DeVito
If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing. -- Billy the Kid
It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances. -- Bryan Brown
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable." -- Katherine Paterson
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Everything that looks good may not be good for you. In life, we all take chances. You must carefully examine the pros and cons. People often times have certain hidden agendas. And, you might not realize until you're in too deep. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success. -- Bobby Jones
What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically? -- Lance Henriksen
It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that. -- Amy Poehler
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do. -- Matthew Ashford
Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes. -- Preity Zinta
I like to take chances on people, and whenever possible, promote from within - it sends a great message to everyone in the company when someone demonstrates a passion for the job and leadership skills at every step along the way and is rewarded with a leadership role. -- Richard Branson
The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative. -- Sally Quinn
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. -- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Ain't no chance if you don't take it. -- Guy Clark
You cannot take all the chances you get. -- Marat Safin
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? -- Phyllis Diller
The only safe thing is to take a chance. -- Elaine May
TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different. -- Shane Smith
It takes one person to give you a big chance. -- Patricia Velasquez
I just have to take my chances like any other composer. -- Gordon Getty
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time. -- Terence
As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it. -- Leo Durocher
Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot. -- Ziggy Marley
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances. -- Alberto Salazar
I'm not the type of person that could take someone else's funds and take a chance with them. -- Grace Hightower
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. -- Gloria Estefan
Life is full of chances. Take it lightly. -- Kim Jong-hyun
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Life happens. Love happens. You gotta take some chances. -- Marie Force
I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter

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