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Opportunity Quotes
"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
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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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"FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano."
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"My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force."
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"He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue."
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"Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that."
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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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"Like an energy even an opportunity cannot be destroyed, if you don't accept, it goes to someone else."
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"I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity."
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"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
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"Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us."
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"Everyday, God gives us the sun- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist - that today is the sames as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment."
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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 should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express."
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"Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world."
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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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"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
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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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"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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"By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses."
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
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"Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it."
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"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
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"Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth."
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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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"I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying."
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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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"I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler."
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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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"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."
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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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"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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"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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"Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states."
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"We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting."
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"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves."
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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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"If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it."
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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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"I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely."
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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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"When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since."
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"I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too."
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"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."
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"I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day."
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