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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.
Donald Johanson
Experience
Opportunity
Digging
Ancient
Indian
Archeological
Remains
Had
Undergraduate
Go
Up
Southwest
Midwest
Villages
Number
But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.
Donald Johanson
Opportunity
Three
Other
Later
Ancestors
Detailed
Had
Observations
New
Until
She
Make
Years
Discoveries
Lab
Very
Human
Realized
Really
Fossil
Comparisons
Species
Four
We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would deny opportunity based on what we look like or where we came from or who would deny equality based on who we love.
Donna Brazile
Love
Equality
Opportunity
Those
Dream
Would
Diverted
Toward
Like
Look
Came
Deny
American
American Dream
Where
Realization
Who
Based
March
Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.
Donna Rice
People
World
Opportunity
Job
Carolina
Marrying
Glamour
Town
Returning
South
Normal
South Carolina
Normal People
Normal Person
Person
Getting
Wanted
Meant
I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.
Donovan Bailey
Opportunity
Job
Degree
Free
Guess
Gifts
Border
Athletic
Diploma
Give
Doing
Canadians
Get
Want
Them
Then
Successful
Across
Use
Many
I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
Dorothea Dix
Best
Day
Man
Opportunity
Values
Prison
Believe
Sum
Earning
Give
He
Hour
Most
Industrious
Mode
Tasks
Which
Acquire
Themselves
Convicts
Uses
The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.
Doug Collins
Heart
Opportunity
Year
Later
Finals
Intrigued
Joining
Part
Return
Am
Years
Going
Just
Where
Hold
After
Place
Team
Special
Special Place
NBA
Rebuilding
Four
Program
Philadelphia
We want to make sure Arizona residents have the opportunity to learn about the decisions we are making and have a chance to participate in the process.
Doug Ducey
Opportunity
About
Arizona
Participate
Make
Learn
Sure
Making
Want
Process
Decisions
Residents
Chance
Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.
Doug E. Fresh
Work
Opportunity
Other
Everything
Way
Obama
Give
Only
Economy
Make
Jump
Going
Really
Whole
Even
Each
Initiative
Start
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.
Douglass North
War
Me
Opportunity
Three
Reading
Become
Give
Give Me
Economist
Course
Became
Years
Continuous
Did
Convinced
Should
It's very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the same day multiple times, in quick successions, it's different and sort of a really rare opportunity that I was initially terrified by and a little bit daunted by.
Dove Cameron
Day
You
Opportunity
Rare
Bit
Both
Sort
Terrified
Because
Within
Quick
Very
Times
Roles
Same
Different
Interesting
Little
Little Bit
Them
Really
Different Roles
Initially
Multiple
Actor
Play
I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar.
Drake Bell
Guitar
Opportunity
Introduced
Somewhat
Student
Had
Since
Learn
How
Roger
Movie
The Who
Who
Play
Played
'The Price Is Right,' it was an honor to be offered it because it's such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.
Drew Carey
Great
Me
Opportunity
Honor
Thought
Long
Has-Been
Carry
Able
Great Opportunity
Price
Institution
Because
Tradition
Been
Offered
American
Show
Right
One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.
Drew Gilpin Faust
Opportunity
President
Considerable
Harvard
Jobs
Had
Major
Learned
Doing
Lot
Process
Choose
Number
You want to earn that opportunity to be part of WrestleMania, the biggest show of the year.
Drew McIntyre
You
Opportunity
Year
Earn
WrestleMania
Part
Want
Biggest
Show
I went through ups and downs in this business and in life, and when I was released by WWE in 2014, I knew I had a wealth of knowledge and an opportunity.
Drew McIntyre
Life
Knowledge
Business
Wealth
Opportunity
Ups And Downs
Released
Through
Had
Knew
WWE
Ups
Downs
I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.
Duane G. Carey
Good
Me
People
Opportunity
Good People
Way
Corps
Astronaut
Some
Join
Selected
Along
Very
Worked
Who
Helped
Actually
You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.
Dwight Henry
You
Opportunity
Never
Know
Get
Going
It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.
Dylan Smith
Service
You
Business
Change
Smart
Opportunity
Important
Enough
Market
Out
About
Excited
Investor
Sell
Times
Model
Going
Much
Convince
Figure
Need
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Earl Warren
Life
Education
Opportunity
He
Days
Denied
Child
Expected
Any
May
Succeed
Doubtful
Reasonably
I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
Ed Rendell
Business
Money
Opportunity
Giving
Jobs
Pennsylvania
More
Invest
Investment
Put
Environment
Expand
Improving
Tax
Interested
Capital
Capital Investment
Creating
Grow
RT completes the picture of the events in the U.S. and around the globe, giving viewers access to a range of stories, voices, and opinions and a real opportunity to speak their minds.
Ed Schultz
Speak
Events
Opportunity
Giving
Picture
Minds
Range
Voices
Globe
Around
Access
Opinions
Real
Real Opportunity
Stories
Viewers
For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
Eddie Redmayne
Saying
People
Opportunity
Down
Everything
Got
Been
Very
Role
List
Quite
Low
Theory
Lucky
Actor
Consequence
If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
Eddie Vedder
Life
Music
Nature
Me
Opportunity
Somewhere
Ocean
Lost
Tremendous
Spend
Kind
Able
Some
Tour
Studio
Surrounded
Afforded
Being
Your
Playing
Anything is possible, and if an opportunity turned up, and it was under the right circumstances, I would love to come back to England in a coaching capacity.
Edgar Davids
Love
Opportunity
Back
Circumstances
Possible
Would
Come
Up
Anything
Anything Is Possible
Capacity
Turned
Coaching
England
Right
You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
Edgar Ramirez
Funny
Day
You
School
Opportunity
First
Guy
New
Accent
Foreigner
Persona
Get
Create
Whole
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