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  • People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

  • Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices consigned them to another generation - or, perhaps, a term of indefinite duration - of virtual enslavement to the past.

    Past   June   Justice  
  • I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.

    United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”
  • Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

    Hope   Believe   Love Is  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • What kind of motivated me to join the Black Panther Party was that I, along with some of the comrades that I was working with in New York, had heard about the Black Panther Party, and they were doing things that we wanted to do in New York, and we thought that would be a better vehicle than the vehicle that we had going on in New York. They were better organized, and they already had their Ten-Point Platform and Program, and people already heard about them. So we decided that we would join the party, when given a chance.

    New York   Party   People  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

    Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books
  • You have to have quarterbacks who can keep up with everybody else. And I'm not saying that just black quarterbacks can do that, but more black quarterbacks are given a chance because they fit the mold.

    Black   Mold   Chance  
  • Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

  • I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of Star Wars - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.

    Stars   War   Drama  
    "Q&A – Rick Schroder (Blood Done Sign My Name) Loves Sci-Fi Movies and Fast Zombies". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.
  • There's players like myself in the league who deserve to make the All-Star team and aren't given a chance. I've put up numbers, as good if not better than players that are making the team.

    Stars   Team   Player  
  • The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

    W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race”, p.174, Oxford University Press
  • there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

    Long   Chance   Enough  
    Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.253, Vintage
  • It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

    Health   Body   Littles  
  • If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

  • There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

    Doors   Feet   People  
  • I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

  • A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

    Blow   People   Chance  
    "Disposable cameras". Interview with Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2004.
  • All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

    Love   Sad   Boyfriend  
    Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”
  • Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

    Actors   Chance   Given  
    "Brad Pitt: 'I Would Love to Work in A Bollywood Film'" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2012.
  • I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

    "Interview With Joel and Victoria Osteen". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 22, 2006.
  • We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  • As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that sometimes when things go wrong, it is just an accident. In order to change how we lay blame, we’re going to have to change our over-protective habits; children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.

  • I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

    Years   Battle   Golden  
  • 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.

    Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's
  • You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

  • If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

  • I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.

    Book   Hands   Numbers  
    John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
  • There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

    Fear   Women   Done  
  • The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

    "Sea Shepherd: how we sank the Japanese whaling fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.
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