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• Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.

  Stephen Colbert

  Topics in Life, Opportunity

• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

  Brian Tracy

  Topics in Life, Opportunity
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  Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Overcoming, Closing, Stare

• My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

  Daniel Nathans

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Century

• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Opportunity, Truth

  Tags in Injustice

• Everyone is trying to do something that hasn’t been done and that’s a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don’t give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven’t been done before.

  Dennis Muren

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Good

• Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We’ve been able to adapt nicely. It’s given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines.

  Dennis Franz

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Character

• I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It’s caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.

  Dennis Franz

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Wonderful

• I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Self, Good, Honor

• I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.

  Demi Moore

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in People, Like

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Inspirational, Opportunity

• I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Topics in Inspirational, Opportunity

• Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

  David Sarnoff

  Topics in Opportunity, Success
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  A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Challenge, Life, Opportunity

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Difficulties

• I felt that if there wasn’t going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

  David R. Ellis

  Topics in Love, Opportunity, Work

  Tags in Good

• Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

  Busta Rhymes Jr.

  Topics in Opportunity

• I appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve the people of our state.

  David Minge

  Topics in Opportunity

• Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story – the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

  David Lynch

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Television

• Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. Stand in your own dooryard and you have eight thousand miles of solid ground beneath you, and all the sidereal splendors overhead.

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Life, Opportunity

  Tags in Now, Presence

• The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

  David Geffen

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Company