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Opportunity Quotes
"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
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"I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress."
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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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"America is another name for opportunity."
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"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object."
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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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"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
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"I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world."
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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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"If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?"
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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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"I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right."
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"The heart sometimes doesn't care about limits."
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"We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way."
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"I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!"
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
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"When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come."
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"Sacred blessings and divine opportunities appear in your life disguised as unforeseen changes and challenging circumstances."
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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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"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
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"It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try."
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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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"In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level."
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"I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene."
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"Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently."
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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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"To those who will see, the world waits."
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"The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way."
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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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"When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
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"We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children."
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"You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do."
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"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"
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"Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it."
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"But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?"
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"It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?"
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"This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity."
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
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"All things are possible; if something seems like it's not, it's only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet."
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"There are endless opportunities in life."
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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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"We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity."
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"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."
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"On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things."
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"He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue."
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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
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"Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life."
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