Opportunities Quotes
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I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every player under the age of twelve play box lacrosse exclusively or at least a majority of the time. The number of touches of the ball and the ability to develop better stick skills in a game of box lacrosse, far surpasses what happens to young people on a 110 x 60 yard field. Learning how to pass and catch in traffic, understanding how to shoot, and developing a sense of physicality are all positive traits developed by the box game.
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As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.
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Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.
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Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
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Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.
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I am not somebody who just says let's beat up on the bad guys. No. I want to summon the good guys and give people the incentives and opportunities to actually grow this economy, put more people to work, get the middle class really feeling like they're back in business.
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Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment
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The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.
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Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
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Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.
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I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.
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I just went out and played ball tonight. I took advantage of my opportunities.
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There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.
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There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.
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I had opportunities to play with other people and give my self some sort of security, but for some reason I wanted to play solo and just put it out there.
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There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
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There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.
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We have many opportunities in mining: we have more than 6% of world reserves of uranium. We have many unutilised assets. We have four million square metres in Mecca alone of unutilised state-owned lands.
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The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
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The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.
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The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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When you have as many opportunities to win on the road against a quality team as we did and don't come out with it, that took its toll. Physically, but more importantly, emotionally. We have to get our confidence back.
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Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.
