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Opportunity Quotes
"We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts."
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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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"Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills."
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"You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last."
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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 I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."
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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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"When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself."
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"I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway."
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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 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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"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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"Always try to fix what is broken so that when the blessings come, you will be able to receive it. This generation does a lot of right things for wrong reasons."
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"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."
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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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"People who are serving in villages should think- here is my opportunity to do something transformative during my tenure & serve my village."
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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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"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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"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
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"The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you."
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"I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene."
8
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
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"In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance."
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"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
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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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"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."
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"This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King."
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"We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity."
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"My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome."
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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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"Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace."
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"To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill."
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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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"We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?"
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"The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself."
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"Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs."
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"It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity."
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"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
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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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"In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity."
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"Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me."
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