Best Opportunity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.”

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Author:Isabel Lucas

“If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.”

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Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.”

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Author:Adam Levine

“We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.”

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Author:Mary McDonnell

“The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.”

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Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.”

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Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.”

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Author:Paula Malcomson

“I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.”

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Author:Pedro Martinez

“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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Author:Pedro Martinez

“The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.”

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Author:Robert Moog

“What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.”

Thinking Done Opportunity Inspire Driven Composer

Author:Robert Moog

“Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.”

Artist Opportunity Spawn

Author:Todd McFarlane

“Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.”

Opportunity Indian Rooted

Author:Vijay Mallya

“Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.”

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Author:B. J. Novak

“I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the Spread show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon.”

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Author:Dave Navarro

“As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.”

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Author:David Nail

“The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.”

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Author:Janet Napolitano

“We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.”

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Author:Michael Nutter

“The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.”

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Author:Ehud Olmert

“I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.”

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Author:Norah O'Donnell

“It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.”

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Author:Peter R. Orszag

“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?”

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Author:Timothy Olyphant

“It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.”

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Author:Tony Oliva

“I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.”

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Author:Kal Penn

“I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.”

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Author:Eva LaRue

“Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.”

Opportunity Doors Economic Slam

Author:Frank Lautenberg

“For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?”

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Author:David Oyelowo

“I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.”

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Author:Ronald Perelman

“As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.”

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Author:Vincent Piazza

“I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.”

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Author:Danny Pino

“You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.”

Giving Country Opportunity Research Department Laboratory

Author:Frank Press

“Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.”

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Author:George Papandreou

“Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.”

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Author:John Prescott

“I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.”

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Author:Regis Philbin

“Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.”

“The Democrats' agenda isn't working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.”

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Author:Dick Pound

“I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.”

Opportunity Blessed

Author:Ron Perlman

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