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Opportunity Quotes
"Everyday, God gives us the sun- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist - that today is the sames as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment."
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"Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last."
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"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."
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"If you can't open it, it's not your door. So, don't force it."
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"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
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"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."
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"I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine."
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"I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast."
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"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
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"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together."
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"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."
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"And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity."
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"I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day."
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"FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano."
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"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
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"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self."
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"I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying."
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"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent."
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"Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past."
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"I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility."
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"There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see."
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"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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"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
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"Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no."
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"We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe."
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"We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting."
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"To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill."
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"The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states."
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"If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it."
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"Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities."
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"Luck is where opportunity meets preparation."
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"The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one."
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"Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great."
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"So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not."
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"Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon."
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"Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation."
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"Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs."
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"Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that."
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"Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to."
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"We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America."
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"The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity."
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"The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London."
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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
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"Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there."
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"It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college."
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"When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins."
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"So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me."
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"I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all."
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"The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs."
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