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Opportunity Quotes
"I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there."
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"To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character."
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"Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation."
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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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"I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine."
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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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"But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers."
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"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
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"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
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"I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity."
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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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"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
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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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"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin."
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"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
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"Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have."
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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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"The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals."
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"Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously."
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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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"Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite."
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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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"Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?"
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"So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not."
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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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"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object."
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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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"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 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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"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 believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children."
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"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
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"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."
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"We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America."
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"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."
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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 only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity."
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"Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past."
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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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"We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe."
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"I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility."
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"Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes."
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"What was on the other side?"Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it.""He... never went through it?""That's why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn't see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever."
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"I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler."
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"Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last."
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"If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief."
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"Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them."
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