Opportunity Quotes
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
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If I have freedom to experiment with a scene, then I try my best to do that. With TV and with the variety of directors you have on a season, you rarely get that opportunity. It's more structured.
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I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.
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In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.
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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'.
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Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
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The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.
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As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.
Charles B. Rangel
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Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.
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You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'
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My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.
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The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
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My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
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We don't want to get into a spot with Steve where we're going to cost him an opportunity someplace. But he is still determined that he is going to play on this hockey club. We're open to that too. It has a lot to do with the respect we have for him as a player and an individual.
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Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.
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Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
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In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.
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Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.
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Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.
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I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.
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We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.
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We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.
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People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
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And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.
