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Opportunity Quotes
"You still have a very promising shot at winning, but the only thing left is you making up your mind to take it."
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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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"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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"I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen."
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"If you can't open it, it's not your door. So, don't force it."
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"I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler."
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"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
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"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
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"Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted."
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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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"Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that."
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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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"Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great."
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"You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle."
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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 would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all."
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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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"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
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"Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand."
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"And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early."
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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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"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
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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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"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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"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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"I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing."
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"So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop."
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"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
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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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"I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else."
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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
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"Always try to fix what is broken so that when the blessings come, you will be able to receive it. This generation does a lot of right things for wrong reasons."
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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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"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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"I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler."
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"We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity."
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"Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one."
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"I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe."
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"The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday."
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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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"One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed 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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"I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us."
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"While we stop to think, we often miss our 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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"Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity."
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