I think if anyone tells you the odds are slim, just keep walking. Just do whatever the hell you want to do,… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're… — John Corbett Copy Share Image
I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown… — Augustus Pitt Rivers Copy Share Image
First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
So you can get very remarkable investment results if you think more like a winning pari-mutuel player. Just think of it as… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Different personalities inspire me as an actor. Especially quirky personalities, maybe people I wouldn't normally get along with or be friends with… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
If you don't have to have a partner, don't take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can… — Richard Rawlings Copy Share Image
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Ain't nothin' better We beat the odds together I'm glad we didn't listen Look at what we would be missin' They said… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
Don’t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God’s commandments. At times it… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada… — John Atkinson Copy Share Image
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit… — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
Of course, we all need angels. I had to have one over my head throughout my life, even right now. The odds… — Michael Oher Copy Share Image
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of… — Randy West Copy Share Image
If you don't share information among your startup's team, then it'll be just about a coincidence if product, marketing, and engineering are… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
When you have a powerful, long-term vision for something, even against all odds and adversity, you will continue to make progress and… — Robin Crow Copy Share Image
So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and… — Safra A. Catz Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I attended Hamilton College in N.Y., and when I graduated, I had the mindset that I'd rather regret the things I did… — Ryan Serhant Copy Share Image
If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
[John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the… — Carolyn McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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