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Opportunity Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together."
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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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"While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me."
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"Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed."
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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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"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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"Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet."
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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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"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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"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"
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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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"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student."
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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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"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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"The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor."
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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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"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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"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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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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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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"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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"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 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 wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me."
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"By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation."
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"Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today."
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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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"The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not."
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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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"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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"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 am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."
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"Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity."
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