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Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident.
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
When I had an accident in 2006, no one believed that I will return to the ground, but I did.
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.
My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.
When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
I'd never seen a professional wrestling match. First one I saw, I was in. It was just an accident.
A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
It was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part.
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that's why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.
I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
A man should be well groomed. If you're going to have facial hair, it should be a choice, not an accident.
The idea that people would work on themselves, who hadn't had an accident - I can't stand plastic surgery.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
When someone's eyesight is not right and he is asked to drive a bus then accident will certainly take place.
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
It's no accident that the fastest growing states with the best economies are all led by Republican governors.
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
I was sure after the accident when in hospital in Hungary that I was not in the position not to lose any races.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.