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Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
- Anne Archer
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Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.
- Ron Fournier
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By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.
- Miroslav Lajcak
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There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.
- Susie Dent
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Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.
- William Petersen
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Most entrepreneurs are very gut driven - they have to be because the odds and data are often stacked against them. If your gut says something is the right thing to do, then do it.
- Chieh Huang
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As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.
- Will Arnett
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Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.
- Gayle Lynds
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Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run him. Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be.
- Maureen Dowd
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The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.
- Peter Beard
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The odds are stacked heavily against women in politics. They are up against strong, entrenched and largely patriarchal lobbies in political parties.
- Nagma
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But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
- Patricia Clarkson
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
- Patricia Clarkson
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I don't even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.
- Chris Arreola
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You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
- Ernest Rutherford
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Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
- Bo Bennett
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Of course, we all need angels. I had to have one over my head throughout my life, even right now. The odds of my making it were slim to none. So you have to have an angel. You have to believe.
- Michael Oher
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
- Charles Buxton
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I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.
- Susanna Kearsley
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I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.
- Bella Thorne
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Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.
- Hank Johnson
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Luca Changretta's not someone you want to be at odds with. It's a fantastic opportunity for me, and he's a fascinating character.
- Adrien Brody
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It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.
- Richard Grimes
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You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.
- Stephan Pastis
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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
- Tom Osborne
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
- Karen Handel
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The Jewish journey started in the land of Israel, and it always strove to return there against all odds and all limitations.
- Reuven Rivlin
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It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.
- Holly Holm
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Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.
- Evan Osnos
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The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
- Billy Beane
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
- J. Cole
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Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.
- Lily Cole
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'Game of Thrones' is so unique, and the odds that any of us involved will be in another show like it are very slim, so I'm enjoying the ride.
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.
- Kris Gopalakrishnan
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I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!
- Paul Taylor
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If you don't have to have a partner, don't take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.
- Richard Rawlings
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The Georgians will treat you like royalty, and the odds are you'll do a lot of eating, drinking and toasting.
- Katie Melua
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Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
- Mark Helprin
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Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's been against all the odds, and she's made such a name for herself, and she can put her name on anything and it sells, and I admire that about her, but Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen are my favorites.
- Lauren London
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It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.
- Ryan Gosling
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There was a time when I was not able to speak properly because of my medical condition. But I managed to fight against all those odds.
- Sangram Singh
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I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
- Louis Armstrong
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It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.
- Michelle Alexander
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Ever since 'Demon's Souls,' I've really been pursuing making games that give players a sense of accomplishment by overcoming tremendous odds.
- Hidetaka Miyazaki
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When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
- Nash Grier
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The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
- Tony Goldwyn
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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
- Benny Hill
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I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
- Darrell Royal
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I've been defying the odds my entire life.
- Wayne Messam
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When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
- Adam Carolla
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As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.
- Tim DeKay
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I don't take a lot of notice of odds.
- Peter Shilton
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Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
- Andy Dunn
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
- Fran Drescher
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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
- Marilyn French
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My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them; everyone wants them gone. So they never win. But they never give up, either.
- Gail Simone
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True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
- Anthony Albanese
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Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds.
- Markus Persson
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As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be.
- James Holzhauer
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Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.
- Jennifer Hyman
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
- Tom Stoppard
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To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.
- Craig Zadan
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I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.
- John Atkinson
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Society is at odds with itself.
- Clint Eastwood
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The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
- Elon Musk
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I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.
- Shelley Long
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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.
- Alan Shepard
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I like to be against the odds.
- Barry Bonds
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
- Theodore Roethke
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Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
- El-P
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
- Desi Arnaz
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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
- Chaim Potok
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
- Charles Bukowski
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Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
- Daniel Kahneman
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Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
- Scott Adams
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I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
- Louis Nizer
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You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
- Ho Chi Minh
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Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
- Henry Paulson
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Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
- Robert Jarvik
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We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.
- Billy Parish
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I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
- Paul Watson
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
- Jesse Jackson
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
- E. O. Wilson
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Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
- Douglas Adams
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Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
- Arnold Palmer
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I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'
- Jennifer Lee
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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
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