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If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.

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.

I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

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?

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

There is nothing permanent except change.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Change before you have to.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.