I think ultimately the goal is to try to bring a Super Bowl to New Orleans and that’s the reason I signed that deal, because I have a great chance at winning another Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints.
I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.
If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
I’ve always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
But we also believe in taking risks, because that’s how you move things along.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Now that I’ve had a chance to play for a team where we won 30 or 35 games, you understand how special winning is.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
I don’t think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don’t have monopolies out there, so that people don’t have a chance to compete fairly.
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
When I get moved to write a story, I don’t question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: ‘You can’t do that’, ‘You shouldn’t do that’. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.
I am the type of person who relishes the chance to stand up and perform under pressure. I have had to do that my whole career.
Events are not a matter of chance.
The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
I’m grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
My first love is football. When I get the chance, I play football for fitness.
Usually when I’m out doing stuff, I’m just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don’t really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.
I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.
When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don’t assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.
I don’t think everyone should get a second chance.
I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you’re giving yourself a chance.
Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
I can’t be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, ‘Hey, check out my zit!’ – you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.
If you want to wear something and you feel confident, you are going to rock it. That’s what I love about fashion: it’s your choice and your chance to express yourself.
I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don’t give yourself the best chance of winning, you’re going to kick yourself tomorrow.
It’s so different when you get a second chance to come back out and do your thing – you’re more humble, you appreciate it more, you know what not to do this second time around.
I knew I’d been given another chance, another life in Australia by my parents, so I didn’t want to hurt them.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Films are something that happened by chance.
I’ve got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It’s very important to take enormous risks.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
I look at Puff Daddy as somebody that gave me a chance to prove the whole world wrong. Cause when I used to think about rap, everybody would say, ‘Well, you talk too slow,’ or, ‘You rap too slow,’ when in reality, that was my uniqueness.
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it’s tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.
I hope people don’t compare 2D and 3D because 3D’s new, it’s unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we’re jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Usually, I’m a very positive guy. I try to think about the next chance, the next game, the next opportunity to play well.
Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America’s largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.
The combination of old and new is what every wrestling organization should be like. That way, you have a chance to match up the legends in dream main events.
I lucked out when I started to sing. I’d already experienced failing at everything else.
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You’re grateful for these different chances.
At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I’m an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.
I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
