Opportunity Quotes
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The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
Charlie Simpson Busted
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The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.
Flannery O'Connor
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The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from slavery and blackmail imposed by technocrats in Brussels to return sovereignty to the country.
Marine Le Pen
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian
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Any opportunity I can get to come back to Memphis, I try to get it.
DeAngelo Williams
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The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
Bobby Scott
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Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.
Dada Vaswani
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'MyMusic' is a great showcase of what we can do as creators on a modest budget when we're given the opportunity to put together a television-sized project, and hopefully, whether it's 'MyMusic' making that transition to television or having something sprout off from it, it's an exciting time to be a creator.
Benny Fine
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Working at Uber, I see opportunity and potential.
Bozoma Saint John
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Their defense is tough. We know it's going to be stacked against us, but at least we have the opportunity and the chance.
Joe Gibbs
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Luck is when skill meets opportunity.
Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
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It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.
Bobby Jindal
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I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.
Haywood Nelson
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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
Gary Bettman
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A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.
Napoleon Hill
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You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack Obama
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When I was given the opportunity to direct 'Senna,' I decided the film had to work for audiences who disliked sport or had never seen a Formula One race in their lives. It had to thrill and emotionally engage people who had never heard of Ayrton Senna.
Asif Kapadia
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I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.
Jenna Ushkowitz
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But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.
John Abizaid
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Never surrender opportunity for security.
Branch Rickey
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See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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It is important always to make full use of opportunities that come your way, and at the same time, it is important to not just cope with the challenges but try and convert each challenge into an opportunity.
Chanda Kochhar
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We see the Super Hornet as an opportunity... to tie directly into the 'Make in India' strategy.
Dennis Muilenburg
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'My grandfather always says that's what books are for,' Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. 'To travel without moving an inch.'
Jhumpa Lahiri