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Opportunity Quotes
"Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight."
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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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"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 real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday."
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"If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it."
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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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"At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession."
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"This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community."
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"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
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"Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully."
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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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"Like an energy even an opportunity cannot be destroyed, if you don't accept, it goes to someone else."
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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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"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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"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."
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"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."
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"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."
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"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
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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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"Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great."
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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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"Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies."
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"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment."
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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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"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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"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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"On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers."
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"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself."
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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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"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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"My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force."
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"I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up."
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"If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters."
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"We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them."
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"We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express."
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"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."
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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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"By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses."
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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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