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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
Herb Caen
Day
Crazy
People
Odds
City
Somehow
Small
Step
Make
Terrible
Concrete
End
Jungle
Against
Each
Each Day
Whose
People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.
Jeffrey Kluger
Buy
Good
You
People
Anxiety
Odds
Nothing
Too
Find
Pretty
Pretty Good
Having
More
Like
Know
Go
Than
Options
Store
Sweater
Disorders
Many
Stare
Four
Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.
Jennifer Hyman
Great
Business
Odds
Dream
Constantly
Because
Selling
Often
Against
Storytellers
Founders
My goal is to keep going and reach as far as possible to beat all odds placed before me.
Lauren Wasser
Me
Odds
Before
Possible
Beat
Reach
Goal
Going
As Far As
Placed
Far
Keep
Keep Going
As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.
Laurie Graham
Health
Good
Good Health
You
Fight
Matter
Year
Odds
Every
Followed
Disappear
Simply
Maintain
Becomes
How
Passes
Overnight
May
Regime
Shorten
Fiercely
Ages
Fought
Eventually
Harder
If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.
Matthew Gray Gubler
Death
You
Smoking
Cause
Cancer
Ending
Will
Three
Google
Odds
Every
Type
Facts
Never
Leading
Leading Cause
Never-Ending
Like
How
Affected
Get
American
Disease
Die
Just
Search
Lung
Third
Numbers
I've had ups and downs in my career, and if you look at it as a bookmaker, the odds of me becoming a world champion were never in my favour, but I never stopped believing in myself and never stopped trying.
Michael Bisping
Myself
Me
You
Champion
World
Ups And Downs
Odds
Favour
Never
Had
Look
Becoming
Were
Trying
Stopped
Ups
World Champion
Downs
Believing
Career
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
Life
You
Matter
Rest
Three
Odds
Thirty-Five
Weeks
Check
Knowing
Well
Box
Felony
Got
Years
Years Ago
Going
Happened
Straight
Your
Full
Trash
Application
Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.
Michio Kaku
Survival
Better
Space
Will
Face
Odds
Asteroid
Our
Later
Destroy
Possible
Gigantic
Dinosaurs
Threat
Threats
Entire
Only
Never
Catastrophic
Knew
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Hit
Them
Planet
Prepare
Now
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
Neil Armstrong
Future
Game
Space
Odds
Situation
White
White House
Congress
Back
About
Direction
Directions
Over
House
Concerned
Policy
Sort
NASA
Hitting
Substantially
Where
Agency
Forth
Should
Playing
Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
Orison Swett Marden
Men
Miracles
Odds
Incredible
Has-Been
Priceless
Perform
Been
Spur
Which
Against
Helped
Necessity
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
Family
Odds
Favor
System
Out
Dream
Easy
Angeles
Pursue
Support
Come
Leave
Los
Los Angeles
Where
Your
Hometown
If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
Success
You
Game
Better
Odds
Control
Down
Luck
Easier
Bad
Find
Stay
Drill
Part
Most
Make
Always
Discover
Huge
Huge Part
Any
Move
Story
Success Story
Useful
Useful Thing
Thing
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.
Shirley Chisholm
Time
Woman
Seriously
Will
Black
Hopeless
Country
Odds
Group
Believe
Presidency
Despite
Ran
Status
Status Quo
Runs
Highest
He
Taken
He Or She
She
Accept
Sheer
Ready
Demonstrate
Office
Refusal
Anyone
Quo
Elect
Next
Next Time
Start
Jew
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
Art
You
Eavesdropping
Odds
Think
Analyse
Those
Guilty
Intriguing
Some
Picking
Up
Quite
Ends
Little
Them
Extent
The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.
Tom Rath
Life
Time
Long
Healthy
Odds
Over
Greatly
Improve
Choices
Your
Right
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Tom Stoppard
Life
You
Life Is A
Odds
Bet
Take
Terrible
Gamble
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
Barack Obama
Family
Citizen
College
First
Become
Odds
Young
Out
Dream
Shadows
About
Student
Demand
Votes
Go
Person
America
Goes
Young Person
Who
Cynics
Right
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
You
Odds
Basketball Team
Brother
Guy
Take
Picking
Over
Because
Team
Why
Playing
Basketball
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
Character
Me
You
Opportunity
Odds
Someone
He
Want
Fantastic
Fascinating
I think Dr Dre really evolved and really is a great role model for young people that have had to survive and thrive against all odds. He was able to turn his life around and create an empire and become a successful family person.
Aja Brown
Life
Great
Family
People
Thrive
Become
Odds
Young
Think
Dre
Evolved
Able
Had
He
Empire
Around
His
Survive
Model
Role
Person
Role Model
Against
Young People
To Survive
Turn
Create
Really
Successful
Dr
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
Success
Survival
Odds
Think
Those
Statistics
Willing
Take
Mission
Said
Were
Maybe
Which
Us
Certainly
Believed
Chance
I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.
Alton Brown
Work
Cooking
Sex
Girl
Odds
Out
Only
Through
Simply
Over
Attract
Opposite
Opposite Sex
Offered
Improved
Efforts
Did
Asking
Cook
Radically
Fun
Found
Actually
I was telling my manager that I wanted to quit the industry because the synopsis I was receiving from filmmakers all felt like a lie. Yes, they were heroine-centric... but the concepts were simple. Like a rape victim, her struggling against the odds and gaining revenge, or a wife who supports her husband endlessly, or a sacrificial mother.
Amala Paul
Lie
Revenge
Simple
Mother
Wife
Husband
Odds
Victim
Telling
Struggling
Sacrificial
Supports
Like
Concepts
Industry
Because
Felt
Were
Yes
Manager
Quit
Endlessly
Wanted
Gaining
Against
Who
Her
Receiving
Filmmakers
There's a two-tier justice system. And anyone who denies it is either naive or in denial. This is what the reality of America is. If you have certain privileges, if you're from a certain socioeconomic status, you have a certain skin color, the odds are in your favor.
Ana Kasparian
You
Justice
Reality
Denial
Odds
Skin
Favor
System
Status
Color
Naive
Denies
Privileges
America
Anyone
Either
Certain
Your
Skin Color
Who
Although the odds are you're not gonna get the acting job you go out for, it's easier to successfully audition than it is to sit down for a few months and write a movie that's going to actually sell.
Anders Holm
You
Job
Odds
Sit
Few
Down
Months
Easier
Out
Write
Although
Audition
Go
Sell
Than
Get
Going
Movie
Gonna
Successfully
Acting
Actually
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