Tommy Thayer Quotes
It's an opportunity to get involved in the home front and be a little less conventional. You never know, maybe I'll end up taking some classes.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.
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I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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The situation at Buffalo was a rough situation, and I appreciate the opportunity, but going back to Seattle was a better situation, even though I'm not the starter. I've got a chance to get back with some familiar faces, back at a place I'm familiar with.
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If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
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As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
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In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.
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We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.
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When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.
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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
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Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
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I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.
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My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.
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I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
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My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
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I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.
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It's an opportunity to get involved in the home front and be a little less conventional. You never know, maybe I'll end up taking some classes.
