Opportunity Quotes
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We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.
Lorenzo Snow
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.
J. Tillman
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You know, where have you - what have you been doing? You know, and you find yourself sitting next to Jesus, and he's rather an agreeable man. And you have an opportunity to say, so what went down then, you know, that night? And it's supposed to be like him just sort of telling you very conversationally. That was the idea I had. Whether it - whether it comes - came off or not, I don't know.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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I hope I get an opportunity to work with Akshay Kumar and Prabhu Deva, as they are very supportive people.
Kriti Sanon
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This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.
Beeban Kidron
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When people are on 'The Bachelor' it gives them the opportunity to put their best foot forward, especially when you're around the 'Bachelor' or the 'Bachelorette;' that one person who you're vying for attention with.
Jake Pavelka
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Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are.
Bradley Horowitz
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Dan Quayle
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This is an opportunity for bipartisanship and transcendence, an opportunity to find our better selves and in rising to meet this challenge, create a better brighter future - a future worthy of the generations who come after us and who have a right to be able to depend on us.
Al Gore
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I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
Dorothy Kilgallen
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
Lindsey Vonn
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Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.
Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
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In randori, one must search out the opponent's weaknesses and be ready to attack with all the resources at his disposal the moment the opportunity presents itself, without violating the rules of judo.
Kano Jigoro
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Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.
Laurene Powell Jobs
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I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever they provide us with the necessary facilities from which to defend their own continent.
Chester Bowles
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My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.
Clara Shih
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What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.
Ann McLane Kuster
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Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.
Joan Allen
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What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those posters that were put up in Europe, which said, "Come to America and you'll have golden sidewalks. The land will be yours." There was something so inspirational about the fact that these immigrants from all over the world felt that here was a place of freedom, a place of opportunity.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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It brings one very large tank of foam to the scene. Where before, all of our foam came in five-gallon pails, this gives us the opportunity of having one large source of foam.
Eric Johnson
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I'm a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don't have it that night, you don't have it that night. But sometimes you're like, 'Give me that opportunity to grind through this'.
Jason Hammel
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A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
J. Frank Dobie