Opportunity Quotes
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.
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'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.
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I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!
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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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We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.
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I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.
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People need role models, and they need to feel that there's this opportunity to learn. They need to have people that will stick up for them. I want to be a part of that.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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For me, every opportunity is a golden opportunity, so I just need to work as hard as I can to maintain credibility and respect and hopefully people enjoy watching me as an actor.
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I'm proud to have opened two schools in Africa and one in Jamaica through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back.
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I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'
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I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.
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Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.
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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
