Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
~By Max von Sydow ~
I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
~By Alan Autry ~
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 ~
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
~By William Pollard ~
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
~By Mordecai Richler ~
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
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 ~
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
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 ~
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
~By Darrell Royal ~
To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.
~By Rider Strong ~
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
~By Allen West ~
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 ~
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.
~By Stephanie Tubbs Jones ~
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
~By Mae West ~
It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.
~By Susan Estrich ~
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
~By Harold Ramis ~
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
~By Karl Kraus ~
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
~By Dan DeCarlo ~
Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.
~By Jay Chiat ~
The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
~By Peter Drucker ~
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
~By Vera Wang ~
But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.
~By John Abizaid ~
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. ~
If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
~By Samuel L. Jackson ~
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
~By Bob Ney ~
I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!
~By Adam Faith ~
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
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 ~
Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
~By James M. Barrie ~
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.
~By Neil Abercrombie ~
What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
~By Robin Hayes ~
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
~By Campbell Scott ~
Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
~By Lorna Luft ~
The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
~By Sam Elliott ~
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
~By Pierre Trudeau ~
I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.
~By Colleen Haskell ~
I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!
~By Selena Gomez ~
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
~By Charlize Theron ~
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 ~
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.
~By Rob Glaser ~
But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.
~By Shannyn Sossamon ~
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
~By Sidney Altman ~
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 ~
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
~By John Doerr ~
Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.
~By John Doolittle ~
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
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 ~
Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.
~By Sarah Polley ~
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
~By Ken Buck ~
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
~By Richard L. Evans ~
Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.
~By Al D'Amato ~
In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.
~By Ron Kind ~
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 author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
~By Allen West ~
We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.
~By Bob Seger ~
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
~By Martin Bashir ~
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.
~By Michael Scott ~
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
~By Sun Tzu ~
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
~By Ben Nelson ~
I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.
~By Bobby Bonilla ~
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
~By David Elliott ~
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
~By Abdallah II ~
Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
~By Gene Tunney ~
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
~By Tony Robbins ~
For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.
~By Chad Hugo ~
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
~By Carrot Top ~
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 ~
Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.
~By Mike Lowry ~
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
~By John Fischer ~
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
~By Susan Taylor ~
I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.
~By Colleen Haskell ~
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