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Opportunity Quotes
"From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy."
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"Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity."
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"When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through."
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"When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever."
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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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"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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"What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities."
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"This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country."
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"If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more."
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"Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing."
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"More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right."
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"It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference."
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"I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together."
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"That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say."
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"If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it."
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"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."
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"Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted."
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"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
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"The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996."
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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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"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."
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"They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here."
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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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"Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it."
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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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"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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"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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"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
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"So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions."
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"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
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"Luck is where opportunity meets preparation."
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"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."
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"The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street."
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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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"Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession."
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"I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this."
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"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
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"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
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"It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping."
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"Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come."
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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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"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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"Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight."
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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 may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity."
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"Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up."
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"I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles."
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"We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe."
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"Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."
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