The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
~By Kanye West ~
Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.
~By Peter Pace ~
I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.
~By David Lloyd ~
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
~By Stockwell Day ~
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
~By Billie Jean King ~
But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.
~By Donald Johanson ~
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
~By Louise Brown ~
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
~By Rick Moody ~
There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
~By Jon Bon Jovi ~
When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.
~By Donald Johanson ~
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
~By Pierre Trudeau ~
We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.
~By Richard King ~
I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.
~By Jason Biggs ~
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
~By Nancy McKeon ~
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
~By Tony Robbins ~
People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.
~By Michael Scott ~
When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
~By Holly Near ~
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
~By Ted Hughes ~
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.
~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.
~By Brad Henry ~
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
~By Lech Walesa ~
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.
~By David Sarnoff ~
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.
~By Joan Allen ~
It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
~By Richard Lugar ~
If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
~By Bill Janklow ~
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
~By Howard Schultz ~
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.
~By Jaime Hernandez ~
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
~By Richard L. Evans ~
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.
~By Nick Ferguson ~
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
~By John Doerr ~
I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
~By Simon Cowell ~
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
~By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. ~
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
~By Ed Markey ~
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
~By Amy Weber ~
Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
~By Bobby Orr ~
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
~By Erykah Badu ~
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.
~By Rob Glaser ~
I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.
~By Luis Guzman ~
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
~By Kyle Chandler ~
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
~By Al Lewis ~
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
~By Leon Kass ~
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
~By Vicki Lawrence ~
Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.
~By Michael Burgess ~
I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
~By Ed Rendell ~
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
~By Steven Bochco ~
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
~By Henry J. Kaiser ~
We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.
~By Steve Burton ~
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.
~By Mel Gibson ~
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
~By Robert Crippen ~
Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.
~By Robert Shea ~
I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
~By Christopher Lee ~
It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.
~By John Robinson ~
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
~By Robert Reich ~
Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.
~By Chuck Hagel ~
When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.
~By Amitabh Bachchan ~
The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.
~By Thomas Menino ~
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important.
~By Jason Williams ~
Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.
~By Anthony Anderson ~
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.
~By Lauren Graham ~
At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
~By Arnie Duncan ~
I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution.
~By Van Jones ~
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
~By Tarja Halonen ~
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
~By Walter Koenig ~
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
~By Philip Warren Anderson ~
When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.
~By Betty Buckley ~
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
~By Peter Marshall ~
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
~By John Burroughs ~
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
~By Gordon Brown ~
It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.
~By Donald Evans ~
The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.
~By Catherine Crier ~
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.
~By Janice Markowitz ~
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
~By Bruce Barton ~
It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.
~By Christopher Knight ~
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