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Opportunity Quotes
"Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity."
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"Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!"
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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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"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 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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"Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity."
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"We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt."
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"Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class."
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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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"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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"The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together."
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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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"Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."
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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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"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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"It's not a competition, it's a doorway."
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"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."
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"I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity."
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"The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band."
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"I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom."
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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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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
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"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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"I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected."
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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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"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
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"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
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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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"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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"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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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
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"If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?"
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"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
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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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"Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted."
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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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"When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself."
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"That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say."
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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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