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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.

I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.

From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.

Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.

See as a Muslim myself, I have never faced any intolerance or any discrimination in any part of the country, instead I have been showered with love, but the people who say that they have faced intolerance must be given a chance to speak up, instead of muzzling their voice.

You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

Jake 'The Snake,' getting the chance to talk to him all day and just picking his brain - you know, he has his demons, but he's an intelligent person, and he knows the business like no other.

When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.

I was given a chance to try announcing, and it was a job that, in the end, I did not care for very much.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

As F1 is a male-dominated environment, you have to prove yourself. And first of all that means being given the chance to prove yourself.

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

When you get on the pitch, you've got to take your chance, and that's what I'm trying to do.

How do you say 'thank you' to a community who gave you a second chance? A lot of people don't get a second chance.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

You have to be patient and bide your time and hopefully your chance will come.

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

There's certainly more chance of me winning 'Strictly' than having an affair with my dance partner, but you know, who knows?

When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small 'l' but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. That's more or less the empty set.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.