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"I don't give players a chance to hit me."
Eric Dickerson
"I don't give players a chance to hit me."
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"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."
Sydney Smith
"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."
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"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them."
Carl Levin
"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them."
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"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."
Mary Chapin Carpenter
"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."
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"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."
Clarence Day
"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."
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"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."
Andy Rooney
"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."
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"If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record."
Gary Cherone
"If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record."
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"What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too."
Thomas Dooley
"What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too."
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"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."
Anne Bradstreet
"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."
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"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
Peter De Vries
"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
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"I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game."
Barry Sanders
"I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game."
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"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."
Constance Baker Motley
"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."
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"Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound."
Juice Newton
"Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound."
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"We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock."
Kevin Costner
"We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock."
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"I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid."
Brian May
"I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid."
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"Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent."
Neal Shusterman
"Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent."
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"You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know."
Carly Patterson
"You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know."
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"Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure."
Joseph Stefano
"Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure."
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"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."
Irving Babbitt
"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."
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"Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve."
Lorrie Fair
"Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve."
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"Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate."
Carrie Underwood
"Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate."
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"I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy."
Rosamund Pike
"I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy."
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"I cry every chance I get."
Richard Gere
"I cry every chance I get."
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"I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition."
Claudio Reyna
"I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition."
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"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another."
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another."
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"Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie."
Edward Furlong
"Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie."
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"Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice."
Trevor Brooking
"Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice."
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"When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance."
Eberhard Weber
"When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance."
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"The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me."
Ida Tarbell
"The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me."
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"Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place."
John Barrow
"Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place."
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"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryan
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
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"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."
Arthur Ransome
"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."
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"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed."
William Ernest Henley
"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed."
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"I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it."
Alonzo Mourning
"I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it."
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"Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard."
Scott McCloud
"Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard."
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"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."
Edward F. Halifax
"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."
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"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."
Richard Eyre
"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."
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"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."
Thomas Mann
"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."
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"I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the ."
Rob Mariano
"I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the ."
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"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."
Peter Sarsgaard
"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."
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"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve."
Mark Shields
"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve."
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"This party is full of stars. They will all have their chance to shine."
Roger Knapman
"This party is full of stars. They will all have their chance to shine."
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"You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points."
Sterling Marlin
"You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points."
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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Ken Follett
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
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"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."
Jean Nidetch
"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."
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"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."
Charisma Carpenter
"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."
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"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up."
Eric Heiden
"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up."
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"Chance is a name for our ignorance."
Leslie Stephen
"Chance is a name for our ignorance."
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"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone."
Robert Rauschenberg
"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone."
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"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."
Maurice Strong
"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."
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