You want to be playing off the cuff sometimes to take chances and make something happen.
If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.
I have a number of projects that I’ve been dreaming of making ever since I was a child. But I am also very open to the chances of life and the chances of my profession.
I believe in second chances.
I’m not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.
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.
I am a winger, but in future, I want to play more in the middle. When you are there, you have a lot more chances to score.
Low kicks, you need to throw at least 20 to finish the guy, and he has 20 chances to block you, and you can break your leg.
If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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.
Let’s figure out ways of keeping our children out of the juvenile justice system and in the classroom so that they’ll thrive. Because if you’re in the juvenile justice system, the chances of your going into the adult penal system are greatly increased.
You can line anybody up against me and I’m going to throw against them. And I like my chances, in the most humble way.
If you don’t score when you have chances then things start to get difficult.
I will be honest, and I have no shame in saying that after ‘Kai Po Che!’, I did not get chances. Some people didn’t understand what to give me, and some people went out of the way to not give me work.
I just want to say, don’t be afraid, believe in yourself, whatever comes your way you have to experience it to really know what that is. So if you have too much fear inside you may let go of certain opportunities or chances, so trust in yourself and stick with it.
What interests Chiellini and I is not conceding goals. We’re able to create chances and it makes us happy when we take them.
I guess I’ve always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals – people who are adventurous and take chances.
When you fall in love with a younger woman, you’ve got to realise that the chances are they are going to want a family.
Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.
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.
What I have learned about Metallica is that it’s all about taking chances and challenges.
Your wedding is your red carpet moment, and while brides definitely can take some chances with style, you don’t want to look like a fad.
It is tough for an actress to raise her voice on sexual harassment because the chances are they will question your character, they will ruin your career, and they will defeat you in the power game. So one has to be very strong to fight against these white-collar mafias.
I knew the HIV virus was something anyone could get but also believed the chances were very slim… I honestly believed I had a better chance of winning the lottery than contracting this disease. I have never been so wrong in my life.
I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don’t ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.
Playing collectively will boost our chances of winning.
It’s hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there’s a character that I’m the best fit to play? It’s really small!
It’s extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you’re trying to write fiction, not a match report.
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
With the last couple of Pantera records, we kept getting more and more narrow-minded because of Phil. He didn’t want to experiment or take any chances, and it was like being in a tube that was getting to be so small you couldn’t even breathe. Personally, I think the dude was afraid of success.
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.
Scoring goals comes and goes with time, but the most important thing is that we continue creating chances. The entire team must work, and we then have to score goals.
I actually think the chances that we’ll find E.T. are pretty good.
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.
And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it’s going to ruin their chances of getting into college.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I’ve been given in life.
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment.
Just sitting on the bed watching TV. And they said someone with a left inner ear infection, ear pops up, whoa! And uh, yeah, that’s me. And you know, they just prayed that it be healed and it sure was. It went away and that was that. And I knew I was healed. What are the chances, eh? That was the Lord working!
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.
The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They’re everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.
The best customers for us are the ones that present us with a new problem because chances are, if one customer has that problem, 100 more have it, or 1,000, or 10,000. So you start thinking about solution development rather than product development.
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.
Brazil versus Argentina is always a great game, with great football and scoring chances.
If you’re picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren’t going to stay in touch after graduation.
It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.
Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them – making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing down all the chances I missed in a book thinking ‘I should have done this.’ Scoring goals was all I thought about.
Sometimes results mean something, as there are difficulties, but it depends how you play. You might not win, as you don’t create chances, or you might dominate and not take your chances.
I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.
People appreciate anyone who takes chances – they like a bit of flair.
When you’re worrying about crime rates, go help teach kids to read at a young age so that their chances for climbing out of poverty and achieving success in school and life go up.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you’re not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
In terms of challenges, I think finding the right people to maximize the chances the business will succeed is the hardest thing. You can crunch the numbers any way you want, but at the end of the day, you really need good employees and investors – and they aren’t always easy to find.
