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Opportunity Quotes
"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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"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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"Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game."
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"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."
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"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it."
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"All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity."
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"You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights."
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"Luck is where opportunity meets preparation."
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"There's always an opportunity to fish for something " even if it's just for laughs or ideas."
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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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"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 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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"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy."
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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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"The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
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"The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person."
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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've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful."
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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 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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"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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"So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
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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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"Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities."
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"That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone."
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"The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance."
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"This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King."
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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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"I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play."
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"I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame."
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