Opportunity Quotes - Page 34

• Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Kids, Moon, Giving

  "Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars". Interview with Jeremy Wilks, www.euronews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, Space

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life.

  Buck Brannaman

  Responsibility, Childhood, Might

  Source: www.sacurrent.com

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• Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Meaningful, Jobs, Humanity

  Source: www.thehighcalling.org

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• I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Research, Lines, Tvs

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered new products, new books, new trends and new restaurants, and been able to share them with my readers. I've met other wonderful writers and many incredible celebrities.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Writing, Amazing Opportunities

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• People who are labeled as disrespectful do not get the same opportunities afforded to those who are labeled as respectful.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Disrespectful, Respectful

  "The Noticer Returns Interview". Interview, www.andyandrews.com. October 3, 2013.

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• People who other people value get job offers, they get opportunities, and they get encouragement all because they are valued.

  Andy Andrews

  Encouragement, Jobs, People

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

  Al Pacino

  Actors, Stuff, Wonderful

  Source: www.joe.ie

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• If the right thing comes along and you get an opportunity to be a part of something you believe in, and you think it's cool and want to put your name on it, then you should.

  Jason Aldean

  Believe, Thinking, Names

  "Jason Aldean interview: New country superstar keeps practical approach despite success". Interview with John Serba, www.mlive.com. February 13, 2014.

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• I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together.

  Rob Bell

  People, Feelings, Humanity

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• Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.

  Chris Tucker

  Believe, Doors, Advantage

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• There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.

  Keanu Reeves

  Writing, Character, Drawing

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• Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.

  Keanu Reeves

  Dream, Thinking, Focus

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 13, 2014.

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• The most important thing is being genuine, and real, and not getting caught up in the "Star-Ness" of it. You don't want to act like a star around other people. You have to watch it, and you want to stay grounded, it's very important, and that's probably what I have learned most because you definitely have opportunities to let your ego run wild and you have to keep your ego in check.

  Joan Jett

  Running, Stars, Real

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I'm hugely inspired by music. I am a big listener of 60's and 70's classic rock. And i really just love the overall freedom of that time, of the late 60's and 70's. I love that you had so many different ways of expressing yourself, fashion was really one of them, the idea of clashing didn't exist, and people were using clothes as an opportunity to express who they were. That is inspiring to me - you could mix textiles, fabrics, you were 100% who you were, and that's where my main inspiration comes from.

  Nicole Richie

  Fashion, Inspiration, Rocks

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 17, 2014.

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• It's very easy for me to say that I think everybody should just be treated how they're supposed to be treated and tattoos shouldn't come into play. But what if someone has an offensive throat tattoo that might affect someone's business? I am sure there are a lot of opportunities out there for everybody.

  Nicole Richie

  Tattoo, Thinking, Play

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 17, 2014.

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• I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mother, Brother, Moon

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• [Winning an Oscar] was a beautiful thing that happened. It is in my house, and every time I look at, I see all the people who are a part of it, all the people who gave me opportunities to work, gave me opportunities to make a living at this thing [acting] that was a dream for me, growing up. And I got to do it, and then again and again and again, and make a living out of being an actress.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Dream, Growing Up

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• When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Jobs, Communication, People

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• There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say 65% to 75% of women of America, of all ages, absolutely identify with the complete agenda of the women's movement: equal opportunity for jobs, education, professional training, the right to control your own body - your own reproductive process, freedom of choice, child care-the whole agenda.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Children, America

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

  Brigitte Bardot

  Mourning, Madness, Popularity

  "Brigitte Bardot on Cannes, celebrity and career". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.

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• The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this [vote on same-sex marriage] out there.

  Tony Abbott

  Sex, Sight, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Some fighter’s waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn’t amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.

  Jack Johnson

  Swings, Ideas, Waiting

  "Interview with The Legends of Boxing Part 1". Interview with Monte D. Cox, coxscorner.tripod.com.

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• The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Healing, Winning, Destiny

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.4, Best Books on

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