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Opportunity Quotes
"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
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"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
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"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."
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"The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become."
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"Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell."
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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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"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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"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
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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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"The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal."
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"Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander."
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"It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV."
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"I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way."
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"Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are."
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"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
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"Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities."
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"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."
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"Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted."
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"Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it."
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"But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens."
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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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"It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl."
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"When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this."
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"Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come."
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"So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's."
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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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"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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"I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen."
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"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."
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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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"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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"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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"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
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"Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet."
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"He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity."
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"I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research."
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"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
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"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student."
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"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."
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"Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it."
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"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
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"I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to."
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"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
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"Luck is where opportunity meets preparation."
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"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."
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"Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film."
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