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I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
Tom Hicks

Country, Become, Public

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Life, Country, Took

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.
Charlie Daniels

Play, Beer, Started

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Life, Person, Small

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.
Lena Headey

Someone, Nothing, Lost

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

Rather, Discover, Audition

We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.
Sterling Marlin

Good, Strong, Everything

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

Same, Team, Last

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
Gaspard Ulliel

Fun, Acting, Kid

The only safe thing is to take a chance.
Mike Nichols

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
John Pilger

Stand, Television, Films

It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.
Christopher Bond

Time, Health, Care

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
Dan Glickman

Government, Old, Days

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
Thomas Kretschmann

Work, Trust, Good

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
Russell Hoban

Against, System, Nervous

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.
Stephen Baker

College, Growing, Meet

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
Dwight Gooden

Getting, Sure, Decided

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
Wayne Rogers

Movies, Color, Rehearse

I love to sleep late, and I rarely have the chance to.
Izabel Goulart

Love, Sleep, Late

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.
Steve King

America, Else, Rest

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
Andrew Gross

Life, Sad, Past

I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.
Billy Burke

Movies, Television, Follow

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
Navid Negahban

Fun, Different, Wanted

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
Mink Stole

Hurt, Big, Point

I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.
Nelson Piquet

Mother, Fact, Getting

I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.
Danny Bautista

Best, Give, Leaving

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
Barney Oliver

Travel, Society, Made

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.
Brandon Thomas

Life, Good, Rest

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.
Ramman Kenoun

Life, War, Game

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

Game, Play, Place

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