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I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.

~David Lee

Topics: Back Being Chance Experience Friends Goals Graduate Graduate School Happy Immersed Life Look Marvelous My Life Period Physics Pursuing School Similar Surrounded Thoroughly Very

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Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.

~David Leitch

Topics: Actor Chance Character Great Just Know Luck Person Right Role Room Something Sometimes Speaks Teach Transform Walk Who You

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Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.

~David Leslie

Topics: Always Best Championship Chance Get Go Lots Lucky Other Out People Points Score Some Teams Therefore Times Very

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Harlem was the main chance for the east end of New York, for eastsiders, as that real estate boom that took place in the 1890s - and it was a preposterous one where people bought and sold, and everything appreciated with each sale - and eventually, of course, the house of cards would crumble.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Appreciated Boom Bought Cards Chance Course Crumble Each East End Estate Eventually Everything Harlem House House Of Cards Main New New York People Place Real Real Estate Sale Sold Took Where Would York

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I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Blacks Came Chance Facts Fell Found Histories History Ignorant Intriguing Late Main Major Most Other Second Teens Unaware University Well Were Whites Year I Came

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They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.

~David Lloyd

Topics: Appears Being Chance Crowd Did Every Fun Heard His Just Know Lee Me Movie Offer Scene Stan Think Thought Would I Think

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I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

~David Mackay

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When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.'

~David Mcfadden

Topics: Any Because Canada Chance Country Even Here Kind Knew Poets Real Say Service Something Still Then Thought Wow Wrong Young

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So much of what we do is shame-based, and when you're teaching, you have the opportunity to answer to the best parts of your nature, so I'm always grateful for that chance.

~David Milch

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A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning.

~David Milch

Topics: Bet Bets Better Better Chance Chance Come Cover Each Gives Gotten Group Join Money More Our People Pool Say Spread Together Track Us Whom Winning

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