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Opportunity Quotes
"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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"You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last."
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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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"Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity."
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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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"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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"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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"By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses."
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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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"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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"It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl."
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"There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own."
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"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
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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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"Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity."
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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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"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 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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"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
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"Usually You Pick The Winning Numbers When You're Not Willing To Play."
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"It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie."
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"When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love."
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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
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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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"I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler."
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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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"Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way."
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"In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity."
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"Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century."
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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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"Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an 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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"The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday."
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"Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."
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"Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills."
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"Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways."
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"There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in."
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"People who are serving in villages should think- here is my opportunity to do something transformative during my tenure & serve my village."
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"One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so."
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"Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it."
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"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."
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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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"I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler."
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"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."
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"Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out."
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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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"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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"I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too."
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