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Opportunity Quotes
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."
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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 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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"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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"Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here."
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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 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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"I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important."
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"The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you."
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"Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted."
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"Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service."
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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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"I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen."
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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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"It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV."
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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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"There's always an opportunity to fish for something " even if it's just for laughs or ideas."
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"Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!"
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"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
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"We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express."
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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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"If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside."
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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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"Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice."
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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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"All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity."
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"I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity."
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"I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together."
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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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"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."
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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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"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
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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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"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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"This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community."
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"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
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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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"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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"The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected."
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"When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe."
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