Quotes About Chance

You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!'

I was never supposed to get a record deal - that's one in a million.

I think the first big chance I ever got was I was one of the opening acts for UTFO and 'Roxanne Roxanne,' that whole thing. And I come on stage, it's like 5000 people in the Oakland convention center, I'd never had a record in my life, I'd never had anything in a record store.

I met Icona Pop by chance because we were both recording at the same studio. I was a fan so when I heard they were in the next room, I went to say hi. Next thing I knew, they were on two songs.

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

When you recruit good candidates and you have a good message and you have energy and organization and partnership, you always have a fighting chance.

There's not too many times in life do you get a chance at redemption.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.

You never know what can happen.

Films are something that happened by chance.

If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

It doesn't matter what happened in the season or what happened the last play, there's always an opportunity to make the next play.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

I think everything happens for a reason.

I'm a pretty strong believer that everything happens for a reason.

I take risks; sometimes I lose the ball. It happens. This is the football.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened.

Becoming an astronaut was a little bit of happenstance for me.