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Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
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Ben Vereen
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If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
Author:
Al Unser
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Mark Twain
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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Francis Thompson
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
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Wole Soyinka
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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.
Author:
Diane Sawyer
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When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
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Margaret Sanger
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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Sally Ride
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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Alan Rickman
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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
Author:
John Ransom
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It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.
Author:
Dick Patten
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
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Joyce Oates
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Author:
Ted Nugent
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Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
Author:
James Naismith
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Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Author:
Paul Meyer
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Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
Author:
John Malkovich
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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
Author:
Sidney Lumet
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Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
Author:
Chuck Knox
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It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.
Author:
Shirley Knight
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Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Author:
Nastassja Kinski
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Author:
Lara John
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It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.
Author:
Laurent Jalabert
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It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
Author:
Alec Issigonis
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They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit.
Author:
Gregory Hines
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Never insult anyone by accident.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Author:
Alice Hamilton
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Author:
Albert Gyorgyi
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After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.
Author:
Lou Gramm
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Author:
Carlo Goldoni
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We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.
Author:
Paul Glaser
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
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John Frankenheimer
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Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
Author:
Mike Figgis
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One does not become a guru by accident.
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James Fenton
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I didn't get to the Senate by accident.
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John Edwards
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Author:
Don DeLillo
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I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
Author:
Michael Crichton
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Author:
Emile Cioran
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Author:
Vincent Canby
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I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
Author:
Ryan Cabrera
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Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
Author:
Dick Butkus
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Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
Author:
Wilford Brimley
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Author:
Ludwig Beethoven
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Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.
Author:
Leo Baekeland
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Author:
Robert Baden-Powell
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Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
Author:
Lauren Bacall
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Author:
Thomas Babington
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And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.
Author:
Rick Allen
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Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.
Author:
Rick Allen
