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Opportunity Quotes
"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."
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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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"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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"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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"I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research."
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"We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing."
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"You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need."
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"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."
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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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"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
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"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
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"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy."
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"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."
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"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity."
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"No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too."
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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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"The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response."
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"It's not a competition, it's a doorway."
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"The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself."
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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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"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"
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"I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content."
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"If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social."
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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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"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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"I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid."
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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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"Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell."
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"Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film."
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"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great."
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"We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed."
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"It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping."
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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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"It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference."
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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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"Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said."
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"Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet."
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"It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start."
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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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"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student."
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"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."
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"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
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"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
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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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