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"There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in."
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"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"
"I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."
"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."
"Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world."
"Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place."
"If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it."
"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great."
"Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite."
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
"Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision."
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"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it."
"Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all."
"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told."
"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."
"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."
"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
"When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset."
"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff."
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
"There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in."
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