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Playing football at West Canaan may have been the opportunity of your lifetime, but I don’t want your life!

— Jonathan 'Mox' Moxon (James Van Der Beek), Varsity Blues

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I believe in an America of opportunity!

— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech

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Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right. That’s got to start with all of us.

— Amy Klobuchar, Amy Klobuchar announces her run for president. Here’s what she said (full text)

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So, you see a couple of bad suits and cheap haircuts and you figure 'game over?' Let me tell you what I see. Opportunity. This is an opportunity for every one of those guys to make a name for themselves, to be the victor in something high-profile for once, attention for once, respect for once. So, don't underestimate how that drives a person.

— Elizabeth Lederer (Vera Farmiga), When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two

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Coming from Southern California, it was really interesting to experience different parts of the country. It was all pretty overwhelming, because travel is just a stressful and weird thing. I liked meeting new people and talking to them. I never really got the opportunity to be that social when I was younger.

— Spencer Crittenden, Giving Harmontown’s Dungeon Master his Due Los Angeles Magazine

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Dan: How did you get appointed to the bench?

Harry: You know Dan, that's a funny story. It was the mayor's last day in office and it was a Sunday and my name was at the bottom of the list of a 1,000 candidates. So they start calling folks starting at the top of the list. You see it's Sunday and no one's home. So they keep calling down the list, name by name. No one answers. Finally they get down to the bottom of the list and voila.

Lana: You mean you were appointed a judge because…

Harry: I was home.

— Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson), Night Court, Season 1: All You Need is Love

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I believe that it’s this optimism about the future that sets us apart as a people, this optimism that makes America an exceptional nation. We built this country by striking out on new adventures and propelling ourselves forward on a path we named progress. Along the way, we learned that when we invest in one another, when we build schools and roads and research labs, we build a better future—a better future for ourselves and our children and our grandchildren. Equality. Opportunity. The pursuit of happiness. An America that builds something better for the next kid and the kid after that and the kid after that. No one is asking for a handout. All we want is a country where everyone pays a fair share, a country where we build opportunities for all of us; a country where everyone plays by the same rules and everyone is held accountable. And we have begun to fight for it. I believe in us. I believe in what we can do together, in what we will do together. All we need is a fighting chance.

— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance

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Lachaise: I'm giving you the opportunity to walk out with the money, Mr. Bond.

James Bond: I'm giving you the opportunity to walk out with your life.

— James Bond, The World Is Not Enough

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When you read an enormous number of books, you are going to learn a great deal of information that might not be useful for a long time. But then, suddenly, like a strike of lightning or a grand piano falling out of a window, an opportunity arises to use the information gleaned from even the most unlikely piece of reading.

— Lemony Snicket (Patrick Warburton), A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 2: The Hostile Hospital: Part Two

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Yes! ‘Crisitunity!’

— Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta), The Simpsons, Season 6: Fear of Flying

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Me, I can't help myself. I see an opportunity, I take it. It's a sickness. Truly.

— John Silver (Luke Arnold), Black Sails, Season 1: I.

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What has no hands but might knock on your door, and you better open up if it does?

— Edward Nygma / The Riddler (Cory Michael Smith), Gotham, Season 2: Wrath of the Villains: Pinewood

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You've been given something that most people would kill for. The bite is a gift!

— Derek Hale (Tyler Hoechlin), Teen Wolf, Season 1: Wolf Moon

Gift Opportunity Beginnings Most People Would Kill For

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Good friends are the ones who tell us the truth about ourselves...even when the truth might be something we're reluctant to admit—that we still have a great deal to learn, that we sometimes need to ask for help, that we maybe overlooking a golden opportunity. Yes, hearing the truth can often set us on a different path, but we never know where that path might take us or who might be watching.

— Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong), Desperate Housewives, Season 8: Who Can Say What's True?

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When we see an opportunity in life, we have to take it. Whether it's the hope of winning back the love of our life, a shot at proving our worth, or the chance to show a child the right path, but sometimes when we answer the call we have no idea what opportunity awaits us.

— Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong), Desperate Housewives, Season 8: Any Moment

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I say, if life offers you a new beginning, take it.

— Brenda Chenowith (Rachel Griffiths), Six Feet Under, Season 2: I'll Take You

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Well, frankly, I pity the lot of you. You look out there and see a problem, I look out there and see an opportunity. I'm gonna slide on that slippery floor all the way from Holt's office to the elevator.

— Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 4: Skyfire Cycle

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Never take a learning opportunity away from another student. No matter how smart you need everyone to think you are.

— Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), How to Get Away with Murder, Season 1: Pilot

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My daughter is dead. That's not a goddamn opportunity!

— Tasha St. Patrick (Naturi Naughton), Power, Season 5: Everyone Is Implicated

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What the peoples strive for is the opportunity for a little more food in their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, and the realization of the normal nationalist urge for political freedom.

— Douglas Macarthur, via www.americanrhetoric.com

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Tell me what you expect from me.

Winning team members need to know five things:

1. Tell me what you expect from me.
2. Give me an opportunity to perform.
3. Let me know how I'm getting along.
4. Give me guidance where I need it.
5. Reward me according to my contribution.

— Bear Bryant, Bear Bryant on Winning Football

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It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. This policy shall be put into effect as rapidly as possible, having due regard to the time required to effectuate any necessary changes without impairing efficiency or morale.

— Harry S Truman, via en.wikisource.org

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We get one opportunity a week, three hours a week, to put that whole week of preparation and game-planning and therapy and conditioning, it all shows up in that one three-hour period. That really heightens how important every single play and everything we do—we could have great practices on Wednesday and Thursday but nobody really cares; the only thing that matters is how you play on Sundays.

— Bill Belichick, Belichick's keynote address: Passion plus

Football Opportunity Three Hours A Week Conditioning

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

— Kahlil Gibran, Collected Works of Khalil Gibran

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Remember, Don...when God closes a door, he opens a dress.

— Roger Sterling (John Slattery), Mad Men, Season 1: Long Weekend

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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

— Mackenzie Phillips, High On Arrival: A Memoir

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In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

— John McCain, Opinion | John McCain: Why We Must Support Human Rights

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Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

— Inara Serra (Morena Baccarin), Firefly, Season 1: Jaynestown

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Faith for me plays big around the aspect of love and hope. I have had the opportunity to have people come into my life and love me with a Christ like love. Through that love I am empowered to continue my story and spread that same love to others. To have faith in something bigger than yourself allows you to keep striving for something more, something bigger.

— Amy Bleuel, Interview with Amy Bleuel, Founder of Project Semicolon

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You see an opportunity like that again, you grab it like it's a horse cock and you're Catherine the Great.

— Mike "Wags" Wagner (David Costabile), Billions, Season 1: Naming Rights

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When we are alone, we have an opportunity to get in touch with, to talk to and be guided by our power source. Spirit.

— Iyanla Vanzant, via twitter.com

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The path from below average to becoming Great is going to require you to optimize every opportunity.

— Eric Thomas, via twitter.com

Path Greater Optimize Opportunity

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Some opportunities only come once in a lifetime.

— Eric Thomas, via twitter.com

Opportunity Once Lifetime

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I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope—the door of opportunity—is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

— Theodore Roosevelt, via www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org

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If it doesn't open, it's not your door.

— Mel Robbins, via twitter.com

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The greatest opportunity in the world is found here today….We already know what yesterday has got for us. It’s already gone. Tomorrow, too far away. What about right now?

— Ray Lewis, That's So Ravens

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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

— Jack Dempsey, Civilization's Quotations

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The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

— Alexander Fleming, Globalization In India: Contents And Discontents

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

— Herodotus, The Histories

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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

— Hippocrates, Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis

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The opportunity is not to discover the perfect company for ourselves.
The opportunity is to build the perfect company for each other.

— Simon Sinek, Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

Opportunity Building A Good Company Relationship Reason purpose why

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Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.

— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Second Chance First attempt Opportunity Luck

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They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest. But we can’t forget that he who doesn’t flap his wings, never flies at all.

— Hunter S. Thompson, Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live.

— Steve McQueen, '12 Years A Slave' Wins Best Picture At The 2014 Oscars

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How far can you go down the wrong path before you can’t get back on the right one?

— Carolee Dean, Take Me There

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What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life: A Novel

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When baffled in one direction a man of energy will not despair, but will find another way to his object.

— Chinese Proverb, Proverbs of All Nations

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Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

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Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

— Richard Ford, Canada

Poetic actions Karma Dream Desire Opportunity risks

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

— C. S. Lewis, It's Time: A Family's Journey of Discovering Truth and God's Amazing Grace

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Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

— Tobias Smollett, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. Expedition Against Carthagena

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Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

— Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

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Not everyone deserves a second chance. Sometimes the first chance is so perfectly laid out for them, so perfectly within grasp, and they fall and fail to grab a hold of it. And quite frankly, folks, that’s on them. You can only set up so many perfect opportunities before you begin to fail to recognize what it is you’re even looking for anymore.

— Stephanie Althoff, When Shouldn’t You Give Someone A Second Chance?

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Fuck opportunity. This moment right now is beautiful and perfect. It’s not an opportunity. It’s already happening whether you like it or not — so you might as well like it.

— Daniel Coffeen, Don’t Try To Be Happy

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You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

— Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

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Today is rich with opportunity and I open my heart to receive it.

— Brendan Baker, Top 100 Positive Affirmations for 2016 - The Start of Happiness

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Your job should never be your priority. Happiness should be.

— Unknown, 29 Life Lessons People Learn Too Late

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Giving feels way better than receiving.

— Unknown, 29 Life Lessons People Learn Too Late

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Fear gets you nowhere. Take every enriching opportunity that comes your way.

— Unknown, 29 Life Lessons People Learn Too Late

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A very little key will open a very heavy door.

— Charles Dickens, Hunted Down

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You will not be ready when the love of your life comes along. You also probably won't be ready when you see the listing for your dream job or to buy a house or maybe have a kid or maybe quit that job and try to write the book you keep thinking about or get sick or lose a relative or die yourself. If you wait on the feeling of 'readiness' you'll be waiting forever and worse, you'll miss the best of what's in front of you.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

— Eric Roth, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Screenplay)

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I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

— Helen Keller, The Story Of My Life

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Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.

— Gayle Forman, Just One Year

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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

— David Beckham, How Disruption Brought Order

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You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

— Tom Hiddleston, The Tom Hiddleston Handbook

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I don’t see ‘settling down’ as the end goal for my life. Maybe I’ll get married and have children and maybe I won’t.

— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering

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These days I spend more time in countries that are statically safer by a long-shot than the USA, so by leaving home I am actually decreasing the chances of something sinister happening.

— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering

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Each time I walk into a hostel I make five new friends, each time a local takes interest in why I’m alone, I get invited to a family dinner or a cool local ceremony.

— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering

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Maybe those around you expressed concern or tried to talk you out of it, because the idea of a girl traveling on her own still, unfortunately, draws some skepticism.

— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering

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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

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Potential has a shelf life.

— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

— Michael J Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

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Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them.

— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

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The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.

— Viola Davis, Emmy Awards Speech 2015

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The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.

— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die

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Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.

— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS

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Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

— Kyle Chandler, No Title

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Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

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Personalizing successes sets people up for disastrous failure. They begin to treat the successes totally as a personal reflection of their abilities rather than the result of capitalizing on a good opportunity, being at the right place at the right time, or even being just plain lucky.

— Jim Paul, What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

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