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Opportunity Quotes
"My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World."
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"Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully."
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"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
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"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
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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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"Living in this manner also gave them the opportunity to locate targets and develop methods of attack that would make the most impact on the population, infrastructure, and governments of these areas."
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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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"You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward."
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"The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America."
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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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"The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him."
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"Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities."
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"So many amazing opportunities arise when a chapter of our life ends. When we resign from a job that we weren't happy in, or even get fired, it's actually a blessing because a better experience is waiting to happen. It's all about perspective."
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"When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself."
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"Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet."
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"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."
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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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"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
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"Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests."
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"A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on."
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"Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five."
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"I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."
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"I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom."
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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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"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity."
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"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
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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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"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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"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."
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"If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation."
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"The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese."
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"I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that."
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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
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"I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do."
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"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
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"By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes."
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"The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."
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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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"In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent."
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"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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"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."
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"Your authenticity is the gateway to all good things."
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"From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy."
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"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin."
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"Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity."
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"I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year."
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