One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television’s cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it’ll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.
When I am in control of my game and my short game is on, I feel like I’ll have a great chance to win any week I tee it up.
Whether it’s eight o’clock in the morning or eight o’clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
I didn’t mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That’s an insightful and profound way to look at it.
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.
My mental strength was definitely a weakness back in the karting days, and I’ve worked hard on that to be as ready as possible for whenever I had the chance in F1.
I’m quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
I feel very strongly when there’s no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
I never got the chance to meet Linda Brown; there were several times we were supposed to meet or be on the same stage together, but life gets in the way, and it never happened.
Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what’s going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
I’m not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for ‘That Hagen Girl’, which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
When you get on the pitch, you’ve got to take your chance, and that’s what I’m trying to do.
I really didn’t want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can’t miss shows, so I left.
Sometimes getting beaten isn’t such a bad thing. It gives me a chance to look at myself in a new way.
Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60… I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
But I was very disappointed that I didn’t get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there’s not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.
In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors – and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent and not hire a resume.
I’ve been with beautiful women, had my share of highs and lows. But I have a regret – I wanted to be a hero. I never got the chance, even though I was good-looking, I could sing and dance too.
