Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.
TOM STOPPARD Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
TOM STOPPARD Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it
TOM STOPPARD It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
BAZ LUHRMANN - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in...
ED STOPPARD It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I think, in BMX, it's a lot like horse racing. I wouldn't really bet on it.
CAROLINE BUCHANAN To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is...
DAVID OYELOWO I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can car...
DIABLO CODY Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you ...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.
GILLIAN JACOBS It was terrible. At that moment you don't know if it's a passing thing or if it's life-threatening.
JASON HANSON It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real li...
BEN WHISHAW The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened w...
HAN SUYIN It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
EARL WILSON There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then se...
WILL ROGERS There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If y...
WERNER HERZOG Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.
GEORGE CLOONEY My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Prece...
RICK SANTORUM If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did,...
ZADIE SMITH Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I ...
CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER If it wasn't for life, I wouldn't have you.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to...
BILL BURR I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not...
STEPHEN FRY If it?s a gamble and we don?t think it is, then it?s a calculated risk.
JAY NADEAU Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that ...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, ...
JAMES LEE BURKE It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has ...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time p...
BERNARD SUMNER If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
NAVEEN ANDREWS If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everyt...
EMMA ROBERTS If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would b...
BABYFACE You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn&...
ALAN STERN If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.
ELIE SAAB Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in Ja...
STEVEN WRIGHT You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
SIMON COWELL My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a ...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.
STEPHEN HAWKING Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they would...
KHALED HOSSEINI As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
ZOE CASSAVETES I feel like everything I wear is a favorite thing. I wouldn't wear something if I didn't lov...
DAKOTA JOHNSON I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.
KATHERINE KELLY If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show...
GABRIEL HEATTER My best advice: if you go to Las Vegas enjoy the food and shows and don’t gamble. If you must gamb...
BOBBY W. MILLER If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be...
ALAN PATON If a hitter gets hot, I wouldn't take a hot hitter out of the lineup.
RYNE SANDBERG I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't...
FRANKIE AVALON If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
SIDNEY BUCHMAN If you didn't go out every time it was raining, you wouldn't get anything done. So it's ...
BRADLEY WIGGINS Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
DALE CARNEGIE Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of ...
PATRICK STEWART If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost yo...
IAN WATSON To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.
ALEX TREBEK Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
PHYLLIS DILLER I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of h...
ROGER DALTREY I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let ...
CHRISTINE KEELER I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.
NICOLE KIDMAN One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't...
RICKIE FOWLER Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat m...
ROB SHEFFIELD Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&...
BILL GOLDBERG Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I ...
J. R. SMITH I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn...
KIESZA If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions a...
BEL POWLEY I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days.
BILL KREUTZMANN Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history...
ALAN GREENSPAN Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't kn...
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TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ...
TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro...
TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin...
TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that...
TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
TOM STOPPARD You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ...
TOM STOPPARD Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
TOM STOPPARD All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and...
TOM STOPPARD We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
TOM STOPPARD Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
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