But there were people who took a chance on me.
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Dennis Swanson who took a chance on me for A.M. Chicago.
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Those of us who took a chance on Rdio—it me!
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An employer, partly desperate, partly curious, took a chance on me.
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He was pleased that the university took a chance on him.
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Eight years ago they took a chance on Barack Obama and won.
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Miami took a chance on corner Byron Maxwell and linebacker Kiko Alonso.
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"We were young, and Nickelodeon took a chance on us," Santomero said.
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She took a chance on Trump, as did many of her neighbors.
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I took a chance on myself when I bought my company back.
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He took a chance on a young director in The Player's Club.
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He took a chance on me, and that second chance changed my life.
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Early investors took a chance on the company when it was founded in 2015.
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The middle class and working families throughout Ohio took a chance on Donald Trump.
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"He took a chance on me, kept me the whole summer," McNeil told ESPN.
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Bud Wilkinson, the Oklahoma coach, took a chance on McDonald and installed him at halfback.
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People are getting rich off cryptocurrency, especially those who took a chance on it early.
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I can't tell you how many people took a chance on me to have this opportunity.
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He argues that religious conservatives knew Trump was flawed but took a chance on him anyway.
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What would George Carlin's career have been like if he never took a chance on offending?
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I had never written anything professionally before writing for Atlanta, and he took a chance on me.
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We were very fortunate there was a young gay network, Logo, that took a chance on us.
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But a local bank took a chance on him — to the tune of a $1.5 million loan.
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But, after learning more about Kosilla's expertise and passion, a neighbor's father took a chance on him.
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The Grammys took a chance on Chance the Rapper and gave him the Best New Artist trophy.
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And I'm so glad she took a chance on me because literally it just changed my life.
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After a few years there, she took a chance on joining a tech startup in San Francisco.
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To remember always the community of people who took a chance on a humble graduate with big dreams.
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With Baywatch, Johnson clearly took a chance on a genre that perhaps just isn't quite in his lane.
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They were sloppy, they weren't tight, their demos were very crude, and Karl took a chance on them.
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There are opportunities available to me today because he took a chance on a kid like me, long ago.
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In the 7th round, with the 250th overall pick in the draft, the Broncos took a chance on him.
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But the reality, with all due respect, he's been an amazing investor but someone took a chance on him.
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Later, Feuer took a chance on Fosse, greenlighting him for the film "Cabaret," though they often fought during shooting.
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Still, the important thing is that Huawei took a chance on a lot of that tech before anyone else did.
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But he took a chance on me, and 27 years later I was honored to give the commencement speech there.
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The CEO took a chance on me, and I knew it was time to become an avid learner of operations!
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LG, Motorola, and even Samsung all took a chance on that vision and it didn't go well for any of them.
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"I took a chance on having ... a child with problems," Lerman said, adding that it's important to think about the alternative.
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It was widely understood that the Yankees took a chance on Chapman without knowing for sure the depth of MLB's punishment.
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This area, which had voted Socialist before, was among the many that took a chance on the wunderkind former investment banker.
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Michaels took a chance on the writer, and his faith led to the creation of a new late-night television star.
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He thanked the producers who first took a chance on "a mumbling actor" back in 2003 and a cavalcade of Warner Bros.
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Long before bitcoin hit a high of $19,000 this week, Charlie Shrem took a chance on it — and it changed his life.
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The French took a chance on a fresh face and voted for change, but perhaps got more than they had bargained for.
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A small British publisher, Bloomsbury, eventually took a chance on Rowling and "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" appeared in print in 1997.
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Our reporter visited a rural area of central France that took a chance on Mr. Macron when he ran for president last year.
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The Islanders took a chance on Ho-Sang, a brash scorer in the Ontario Hockey League, with a first-round pick in 2014.
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Yes, I believe we as a party have to reach out to those voters who took a chance on Trump in the 2016 election.
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Rowling was turned down by 12 different publishing houses before British independent publisher Bloomsbury took a chance on her and the boy who lived.
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"New Yorkers took a chance on me, and I will never forget that," she said, referring to her election to the Senate in 2000.
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If you took a chance on bitcoin early on, just a few years ago, your investment could have paid off in a big way.
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Monk's sharp-edged, percussive style of playing — and composing — had turned off critics for years before Lion and Wolff took a chance on him.
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Before Frida, Hayek writes, she was an unknown entity in Hollywood, whom Weinstein took a chance on by signing her to a multi-picture deal.
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Does it mean even more to you since the Fever took a chance on you when came out of the University of Tennessee in 2001?
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Alberg – now a managing director of Madrona Venture Group, the Seattle-based venture firm he founded around that time – took a chance on Bezos anyway.
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I wanted everybody else to be able to say, &aposSquared Away took a chance on me, and it was the best move I ever made.
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Damon's first film, "Good Will Hunting," won him his first Oscar after Weinstein took a chance on a script from Damon and fellow unknown, Ben Affleck.
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Lacking some much-needed power in the lineup after Yoenis Cespedes went on the disabled list, the Mets took a chance on Bautista two days later.
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"Coach O, you have no idea what you mean to my family...You took a chance on me...I&aposm forever grateful for you," Burrow said.
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It was such an indie, and Stage 6 and Sony Worldwide really took a chance on the film, and greenlit the project and really believed in it.
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"I was kind of secretly hoping it was going to be this long-lost Miles Brothers film, so I took a chance on it," Mr. Wright said.
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For the couple who took a chance on an abnormal embryo, a healthy boy is a joyous — if sobering — reminder of the complexities of early human development.
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In 2010, Zhang quit his low-paying factory job and took a chance on opening a pet shop - just in time to ride China's domestic pet boom.
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"When this city took a chance on me as their mayor, the chief executive of this city, I didn't wait to bring people together," Mr. Booker said.
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According to El Pais, nearly 74 percent of Spain's population took a chance on "El Gordo" last year in what's considered to be more than just a lottery.
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And the same people who took a chance on a man who threw cayenne pepper at stews with his bare hands — hired me, a woman with zero experience.
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After a purely mediocre audition and subsequent dismissal by Decca, they had nowhere left to go until, as legend has it, George Martin took a chance on them.
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Well actually, Oher's had an up-and-down career and was almost out of the league before the Panthers took a chance on him this past off-season.
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"Disney took a chance on me as a young writer years ago and so I'm thrilled to return to the Mouse House," Mr. Wilmore said in a statement.
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The Hunt When James and Rachael Patalano couldn't find the home they wanted in their price range, they took a chance on a partnership with a longtime friend.
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Cleveland added the sharpshooting Kyle Korver in early January, and in the wake of James's comments, the franchise took a chance on Derrick Williams, an intriguing power forward.
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Going public put his career on hold — until the Food Network took a chance on him in 2001, tapping him to host its longest running program to date, Unwrapped.
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Kelly Krauskopf, the general manager, took a chance on me that first year when I was recovering from the injury and then she stuck with me through it all.
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Investors who took a chance on the fledgling currency and stuck with it have been on a rollercoaster ride — but are optimistic that they are still onto a winner.
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Investors who took a chance on the fledgling currency and stuck with it have been on a rollercoaster ride - but are optimistic that they are still onto a winner.
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The Rangers took a chance on the two-time Cy Young Award winner with a one-year contract finalized during spring training, hoping he could help them as a reliever.
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In a region that is traditionally very averse to risk and tends to condemn failure, these firms took a chance on budding ventures long before others dreamed of doing so.
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I checked the seat map a week before we left and saw the back of the plane was pretty open so we took a chance on seats in the back.
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When I was ready to go back to work, NPR took a chance on me as a very unconventional 34-year-old intern, married with a toddler and an infant.
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So he took a chance on the former wunderkind Lane Kiffin as his offensive coordinator to install fast-paced schemes like the ones that gave Alabama's defense so much trouble.
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That's how John Wick got to be John Wick, because they took a chance on a strange movie about a guy whose dog dies and then he takes out bad guys.
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No. 1: They took a chance on an unknown Canadian boy when they did a profile on me years ago, and No. 2: They have amazing correspondents who tell compelling stories.
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In 1957, he took a chance on landing his first Broadway role when he spotted the renowned British director Tyrone Guthrie walking in Manhattan's theater district with the producer Alexander Cohen.
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Apparently years ago while you were all snoozing on the future cryptocurrency fad, rapper 123 Cent "took a chance" on Bitcoin and started accepting the digital coin as payment for his music.
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The Braves, looking to improve their starting pitching, took a chance on a rebound by 42-year-old knuckleballer Dickey, who went 10-15 with a 4.46 ERA last season for Toronto.
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Then, in 22004, he got his break, when Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center took a chance on the sharp dresser from California, someone who, in his 20093s, was arriving late to the profession.
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All the other options seemed to only work for a couple of weeks before the silicon brushes would break, so I took a chance on this brush and it's completely changed my life!
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A collaboration with Danny Sugerman, the manager of the Doors (who died in 2005), the book was rejected by many publishers until a young editor at Warner Books took a chance on it.
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For now, whether you're young or young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your President -- the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago.
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For now, whether you're young or young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your President - the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago.
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My story isn't about me being black, it's about somebody who took a chance on their life and has created a career for himself in a very difficult place and also has very good samples.
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A very kind editor at Roll Call took a chance on me and picked me for a paid internship in the middle of the Great Recession from what was undoubtedly a pile of great resumes.
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As President, the buck now stops with him as he targets those "wins" that he promised would soon start flowing if Americans took a chance on a political novice and self-described master of the deal.
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Over the course of Bachelor in Paradise, I fell in love with a different Jade, a humble, soft-spoken girl who stood up for her friends, didn't wear makeup and took a chance on Tanner Tolbert.
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Consider the Obama-to-Trump voters who made a difference in the 2016 election: white working class people who normally distrust Republicans like Mitt Romney, but took a chance on Trump because of his populist message.
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In the fall of 2014, The CW took a chance on a telenovela about an accidentally artificially inseminated virgin that from its opening moments alone was so much better than it had any right to be.
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Buttigieg, who was scrapping the rest of his Wednesday schedule after catching a cold, gave the most traditional stump speech of the day, describing how a "diverse and low-income city" took a chance on him.
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As a lark, I took a chance on a hooded anorak in a Nantucket red-based Baja print ($228), which is to say, a trompe l'oeil of an actual (and presumably much, much cheaper) Baja hoodie.
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Yet the wire service took a chance on the 20-year-old novice, just as it had with his eldest brother, Qais, a self-taught photographer who had supported the family working for the wire service.
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Kandace Landake—a Bayview resident and Uber driver who wanted her children to have a better education than she'd received, and whose children were in good public schools outside the neighborhood—likewise took a chance on Brown.
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She launched an apprenticeship program for the at-risk youth of Las Vegas, Chow to the Core, offering mentorship and a chance to learn and find employment nearly four years after Hsieh took a chance on her.
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I've brought anguish and hardship to the people at FX who have given me so much The Orchard who took a chance on my movie and every other entity that has bet on me through the years.
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Square Feet COLUMBUS, Ohio — When suburban malls began to stagnate in the early 1990s, the parent company of the retail stalwarts Bath & Body Works and Victoria's Secret took a chance on a different kind of shopping experience.
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Many voters who took a chance on the real estate mogul and reality TV star hoped he would grow more mature and centered when confronted with the august surroundings of the White House and immensity of the job.
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I took a chance on STREAMED and LLAMAS, but felt quite stymied at that point, having run out of obvious good guesses that fit, and uncertain where to start with all the entries that were just too long.
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But for now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your President -- the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago.
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Alice tells us she believes this passion was always inside of Kim waiting to be unleashed, and once she took a chance on her case -- and took it all the way to the White House -- the floodgates were opened.
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But six years ago, as a middle school student, he took a chance on an after-school program called SquashBusters, which is financed by donations and provides students from challenged communities with academic tutoring and expert coaching in squash.
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Manager Casey Stengel took a chance on him in Game 2 of the World Series, only to see him knocked out in the second inning at Ebbets Field when the Dodgers scored six runs in a 13-8 victory.
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But for now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president — the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago.
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"I'm thrilled to continue my career with the club that took a chance on me as an undrafted rookie from a small school, invested in my development, and gave me an opportunity to prove myself at this level," Turner said.
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In 2112, partly because Goucher wanted a training partner, Nike and Salazar took a chance on Yoder Begley, allowing her to join the Oregon Project even though she had had limited success and was recovering from hip and ankle injuries.
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Marvel, to its credit, took a chance on the film, handing over $200 million to Ryan Coogler, the first black director to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and to an all-black cast, to make a movie set in Africa.
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With every promise President Trump keeps to conservatives who took a chance on him, the background noise from the GOP Never Trumpers sounds increasingly muffled – as it should, because the Never Trumpers are like ostriches with their heads buried beneath the ground.
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So I decided to look into UX design, a field a lot of my peers were getting into, and a former boss took a chance on me after we met at a bar and I worked at his agency for five years.
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It's the perfect companion to Jane the Virgin Remember back in 2015, when we took a chance on a little CW show about a girl who was accidentally inseminated after Gina Rodriguez won us over with her powerful, inspiring Golden Globes speech?
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These days, Nikki Sixx introduces the world to new bands he loves through his show, as a kind of way to repay Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, who took a chance on Mötley in the early 80s and took them out on tour.
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That, of course, is an extraordinarily risky move and a massive misreading by the president's strategists about why so many people in the swing states took a chance on him in the very first place and continue to stick with them today.
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It was a high-pressure moment: The producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay took a chance on casting him (he had been a longtime improviser at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater) to replace Jon Heder, whom "Big Lake" was originally built around.
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Booker released an autobiographical announcement video set to a drum backing track in which he talked about moving to Newark's Central Ward, "the first community that took a chance on me," and how he's the only senator who lives in a low-income community.
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The Broncos took a chance on Siemian in the final round of the 2015 NFL Draft, despite him tearing his ACL during the second-to-last game of his senior season, which alone would have been enough for most NFL teams to look the other way.
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"She believed in it wholeheartedly," said her husband, Scott Primiano of Amityville, N.Y. Around this point in the typical news report, readers would learn how Ms. DiCanto, mother to a blended family of five, took a chance on an experimental drug that no one expected to work.
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Author J.K. Rowling was an unknown single mom when she first got the idea for her story while stuck on a train; the small UK children's press that ultimately took a chance on it undoubtedly couldn't have predicted that it would have a measurable effect on everything it touched.
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Music and lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt There could be 100 people in a room, and 99 of them don't believe in you, but all it takes is one — and when Bradley Cooper took a chance on Lady Gaga, "Shallow" was born.
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Some voters who resented politicians of any stripe took a chance on this unproven commodity, and it's safe to say they provided the margin of victory for a candidate who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College thanks to slim majorities in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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Halfway through "You Can't Stop the Beat," Link turned the tables on Tracy — when he finally came to realize how wonderful she was — and took a chance (on live TV!) to kiss the leading lady, which had Corny Collins' cast squealing and smiling from ear-to-ear out of excitement.
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It took a chance on the then-uninsurable Robert Downey Jr. to take on the role of Iron Man, aka billionaire Tony Stark, a B-side Marvel hero so low in status that most non-comic book fans associated "Iron Man" with a Black Sabbath song of the same name.
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Pickerall advised the duo on everything from what kind of equipment they would need to the ideal size for the overall operation and more, and eventually they took a chance on planting 130 acres of rye on the Hallock farm, funded in large part by some savings and Reese's continued employment.
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It was already an embarrassment of riches, but last week, Jaylon Smith, a linebacker whom they took a chance on with the 34th pick in that draft, returned after missing all of last season with a knee injury, and made up for lost time with seven tackles and a forced fumble.
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In addition to broad vistas and respite from rain, the region boasts a booming wine industry: The pioneers who first took a chance on planting Vitis vinifera — in a place where Concord grapes were king — have in one generation seen the number of wineries in Washington State swell from a handful to nearly 1,000.
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After the most adventurous year in my career, I'm happy to announce that I am now a Partner at, and President of Grade A Digital, a digital marketing branch of Grade A. It is nothing short of a fairy tale to be partnering with my former bosses, who took a chance on me when I needed it most.
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How he fits: The Browns traded into this spot when the Texans selected Deshaun Watson (the Browns also received a 22016 first-round pick), and with Myles Garrett seeming like a sure thing at defensive end, they took a chance on Peppers, giving them two of the most intriguing defensive players in college football last season.
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That's why they took a chance on Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump congratulates Washington Nationals on World Series win Trump hints that dog injured in al-Baghdadi raid will visit White House Vindman says White House lawyer moved Ukraine call to classified server: report MORE in 6900, probably, I should point out to Ms. Harris, one of the least conventionally electable people in our history.
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Rubell Museum When: Extended hours for Miami Art Week: December 4–December 8 / Wednesday–Friday: 9am–5pm; Saturday–Sunday: 10am–5pm (free admission all week) Where: 83 NW 23 Street, Miami Don and Mera Rubell are Miami art world legends: while other collectors were making market-approved purchases, they took a chance on emerging, lesser-known, and underappreciated artists, like Miami fixture Purvis Young.
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