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JOE SMITH![]()
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepare...
NAVEEN JAIN It doesn't feel strange. It really doesn't. It was six years. You're talking about an opportunity. A...
DEMARLO HALE At first, it was just discomfort. Then as a few minutes passed, it became more than discomfort. It b...
STEVEN SCHROEDER When they were first kicked out, I was really upset but we later came to see it as an opportunity...
JENNIFER COLE When Paul and I got together, it was an opportunity to mix it all up.
CHRIS RIDDELL![]()
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who a...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS When I came into the NFL, it was an escape. It became my way to survive, not just in a financial way...
CURTIS MARTIN It just came down to the fact that it was my home-town school. I grew up around here, it was the opp...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS![]()
I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around...
JANE PAULEY When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that...
BILL FORSYTH It was an opportunity to see the young guys perform. But I wasn't very happy with the performance. I...
ANDY REID It was a perfect opportunity for me to work with sports design graphics, which is what my career goa...
TRAVIS LEE We thought it was an opportunity to do something very special.
JEFF LEEBAW This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came o...
SEAN WILLIAM SCOTT I didn't even have an interview. I was lucky in that regard to be able to start my career as a head ...
BOB MATTINGLY![]()
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that ...
JOHN MADDEN It became a trademark. It's not glued to my head, but I'm very comfortable with it.
CHUCK MANGIONE Competition has just become very, very fierce. PE firms have really had to become more institutional...
BARBARA JONES Suddenly, there was a whole group of people in the world looking for a new sound in music, and it pi...
HERB DEUTSCH I was trying for a few years to get on full-time and when the opportunity came it was great,
BRETT MILLER I came in late, but I got an opportunity to recruit my former players, which was very unique. We fee...
GUS MALZAHN It was hard (to leave) because I love college football. If it wasn't the opportunity it was, I proba...
RON ENGLISH Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clark's...
EMERSON FITTIPALDI Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honour for me to break Jim Clark'...
EMERSON FITTIPALDI There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a c...
ROBERTO AGUIRE Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn...
ZHANG ZIYI I just thought it was an opportunity I needed to take advantage of. These things don't come up in ou...
DAN FERRIGNO This will leave a little sour taste in my mouth. We had an opportunity to win, and it came down to o...
ACIE LAW It's very different. But this was an opportunity for us to serve our people in a very tangible way.
BERNADETTE NGUYEN Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, ...
JENNIFER PAHLKA You can't force anything, but when the opportunity presents itself, if the ball was in my hands, I w...
HORACE JENKINS![]()
I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing ...
STEVE MARTIN It was very enriching. A great opportunity.
KRISTI JOHNSON![]()
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l...
RICHARD BRANSON I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they...
BETTY GILPIN Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Sel...
BOMAN IRANI![]()
If 'Buffy' the movie was the true love of my childhood, 'Buffy' the series quickly b...
SEANAN MCGUIRE It was just too good of an opportunity for him to pass up.
DOUG ADKINS![]()
My head was much more in it. We were able to write very quickly, all four of us in the room, and to ...
CHRIS CORNELL Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doi...
F.A. HAYEK I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able ...
KURT ANGLE Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while t...
PETE PLOSZEK The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
SHELBY STEELE![]()
She played a very aggressive game. I don't think I had an opportunity really to get a rhythm. I woul...
VENUS WILLIAMS 'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off...
DAVID AYER![]()
For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying...
JIMI WESTBROOK I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I c...
MELISSA ORDWAY Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to l...
TABITHA ROBIN I was very excited to get a chance to play against them. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity sin...
JAMAAL WILLIAMS We came out fired up. It's an opportunity to play. That's what we wanted. It's not in the context we...
ANTHONY TOLLIVER It's proceeding very well, it's still in the early days, but nothing will happen until members have ...
NICK PAPPAS![]()
When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like L...
STEVE LARGENT![]()
When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career....
SALMA HAYEK When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cul...
PAYAL KADAKIA Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career...
JANE GREER![]()
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never...
BRAD PITT It was important for us to give the staff an opportunity to see the space, and it was a unique oppor...
MARK WHITNEY It gives the new people an opportunity to step up.
JEAN BUTLER interested in a joint venture in the securities area when an opportunity comes up.
WILLIAM RHODES![]()
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
DOUG LARSON![]()
Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing...
JONAH HILL Students enjoy this class so much. It became very popular [and] it fills up quickly.
HONG ZHANG It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use ...
JOSHUA ABBEY I had the freedom to choose my career. I had the opportunity to choose a career in sports. It's ...
CASEY WASSERMAN There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work...
JULIA VOTH Success loves preparation. If the perfect opportunity is being presented itself today, you must grab...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA![]()
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with gr...
DWAYNE JOHNSON When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which be...
BARRY LEVINSON I grew up there and it was a great community to work for. There's just more opportunity...in a large...
JEFFREY NOEL![]()
With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it be...
NILE RODGERS![]()
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t...
NELSON MANDELA![]()
Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ Mike Jackson leveraged the craftsman mindset to do whatever he did really well, thus ensuring that h...
CAL NEWPORT He said he received a call over the weekend and it was a quick decision. The opportunity came up and...
LONGAR LONGAR It was an opportunity that was waiting to happen.
CHUCK VIANE This is an opportunity to see how quickly these technologies are being deployed in the market.
JACQUELINE GLASSMAN I don't know. I'm into the pros now. After the last one, it took a lot out of me because I really ha...
FRANK GENTILE I'm real happy, very excited. It's a great opportunity for me to end my career here and stay close t...
MARTIN BRODEUR 'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge...
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS![]()
I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, be...
CAL RIPKEN, JR.![]()
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it betw...
MORDECAI RICHLER![]()
Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform ...
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE Charity it was. We gave Wolcott every opportunity to take the game... Mistakes were made and then co...
ED LOPES It was an opportunity to practice our (plan).
FERNANDO SENRA I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - fro...
GARY LINEKER Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record cont...
CLAY AIKEN![]()
I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and t...
LUCY WALKER Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BB...
KEN STOTT It is an opportunity to depict the energy and enthusiasm of this region in a very compelling way.
BRIAN GOERKE![]()
Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
OPRAH WINFREY We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.
DOUG EWELL Benjamin was an instrumental music major, and the project started with a composition, and the screen...
BEN WALKER When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.
ED KEON This is a great opportunity for me, ... I'm fortunate to have an opportunity to learn more about the...
LOUISIANA TECH My life is upside down, but that is okay because it gives me an opportunity to have a different and ...
ROSA M. BETANCES It was a golden opportunity for the government of India to show a human face. But the government mis...
YASIN MALIK I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stag...
AL LEITER That's our plan. We're already behind the 8-ball, but we have to do it some time, ... This opportuni...
LARRY MCCLURE When I signed up for the show, my ultimate goal was being a role model for 13 million readers, but t...
JULIE LELAND
JOE SMITH
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepare... NAVEEN JAIN It doesn't feel strange. It really doesn't. It was six years. You're talking about an opportunity. A...
DEMARLO HALE At first, it was just discomfort. Then as a few minutes passed, it became more than discomfort. It b...
STEVEN SCHROEDER When they were first kicked out, I was really upset but we later came to see it as an opportunity...
JENNIFER COLE When Paul and I got together, it was an opportunity to mix it all up.
CHRIS RIDDELL
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who a... RACHEL GRIFFITHS When I came into the NFL, it was an escape. It became my way to survive, not just in a financial way...
CURTIS MARTIN It just came down to the fact that it was my home-town school. I grew up around here, it was the opp...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS
I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around... JANE PAULEY When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that...
BILL FORSYTH It was an opportunity to see the young guys perform. But I wasn't very happy with the performance. I...
ANDY REID It was a perfect opportunity for me to work with sports design graphics, which is what my career goa...
TRAVIS LEE We thought it was an opportunity to do something very special.
JEFF LEEBAW This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came o...
SEAN WILLIAM SCOTT I didn't even have an interview. I was lucky in that regard to be able to start my career as a head ...
BOB MATTINGLY
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that ... JOHN MADDEN It became a trademark. It's not glued to my head, but I'm very comfortable with it.
CHUCK MANGIONE Competition has just become very, very fierce. PE firms have really had to become more institutional...
BARBARA JONES Suddenly, there was a whole group of people in the world looking for a new sound in music, and it pi...
HERB DEUTSCH I was trying for a few years to get on full-time and when the opportunity came it was great,
BRETT MILLER I came in late, but I got an opportunity to recruit my former players, which was very unique. We fee...
GUS MALZAHN It was hard (to leave) because I love college football. If it wasn't the opportunity it was, I proba...
RON ENGLISH Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clark's...
EMERSON FITTIPALDI Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honour for me to break Jim Clark'...
EMERSON FITTIPALDI There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a c...
ROBERTO AGUIRE Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn...
ZHANG ZIYI I just thought it was an opportunity I needed to take advantage of. These things don't come up in ou...
DAN FERRIGNO This will leave a little sour taste in my mouth. We had an opportunity to win, and it came down to o...
ACIE LAW It's very different. But this was an opportunity for us to serve our people in a very tangible way.
BERNADETTE NGUYEN Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, ...
JENNIFER PAHLKA You can't force anything, but when the opportunity presents itself, if the ball was in my hands, I w...
HORACE JENKINS
I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing ... STEVE MARTIN It was very enriching. A great opportunity.
KRISTI JOHNSON
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l... RICHARD BRANSON I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they...
BETTY GILPIN Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Sel...
BOMAN IRANI
If 'Buffy' the movie was the true love of my childhood, 'Buffy' the series quickly b... SEANAN MCGUIRE It was just too good of an opportunity for him to pass up.
DOUG ADKINS
My head was much more in it. We were able to write very quickly, all four of us in the room, and to ... CHRIS CORNELL Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doi...
F.A. HAYEK I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able ...
KURT ANGLE Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while t...
PETE PLOSZEK The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
SHELBY STEELE
She played a very aggressive game. I don't think I had an opportunity really to get a rhythm. I woul... VENUS WILLIAMS 'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off...
DAVID AYER
For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying... JIMI WESTBROOK I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I c...
MELISSA ORDWAY Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to l...
TABITHA ROBIN I was very excited to get a chance to play against them. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity sin...
JAMAAL WILLIAMS We came out fired up. It's an opportunity to play. That's what we wanted. It's not in the context we...
ANTHONY TOLLIVER It's proceeding very well, it's still in the early days, but nothing will happen until members have ...
NICK PAPPAS
When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like L... STEVE LARGENT
When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career.... SALMA HAYEK When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cul...
PAYAL KADAKIA Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career...
JANE GREER
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never... BRAD PITT It was important for us to give the staff an opportunity to see the space, and it was a unique oppor...
MARK WHITNEY It gives the new people an opportunity to step up.
JEAN BUTLER interested in a joint venture in the securities area when an opportunity comes up.
WILLIAM RHODES
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. DOUG LARSON
Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing... JONAH HILL Students enjoy this class so much. It became very popular [and] it fills up quickly.
HONG ZHANG It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use ...
JOSHUA ABBEY I had the freedom to choose my career. I had the opportunity to choose a career in sports. It's ...
CASEY WASSERMAN There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work...
JULIA VOTH Success loves preparation. If the perfect opportunity is being presented itself today, you must grab...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with gr... DWAYNE JOHNSON When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which be...
BARRY LEVINSON I grew up there and it was a great community to work for. There's just more opportunity...in a large...
JEFFREY NOEL
With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it be... NILE RODGERS
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t... NELSON MANDELA
Darkness is nothingbut an opportunity
to spread light
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ Mike Jackson leveraged the craftsman mindset to do whatever he did really well, thus ensuring that h...
CAL NEWPORT He said he received a call over the weekend and it was a quick decision. The opportunity came up and...
LONGAR LONGAR It was an opportunity that was waiting to happen.
CHUCK VIANE This is an opportunity to see how quickly these technologies are being deployed in the market.
JACQUELINE GLASSMAN I don't know. I'm into the pros now. After the last one, it took a lot out of me because I really ha...
FRANK GENTILE I'm real happy, very excited. It's a great opportunity for me to end my career here and stay close t...
MARTIN BRODEUR 'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge...
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS
I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, be... CAL RIPKEN, JR.
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it betw... MORDECAI RICHLER
Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform ... OGWO DAVID EMENIKE Charity it was. We gave Wolcott every opportunity to take the game... Mistakes were made and then co...
ED LOPES It was an opportunity to practice our (plan).
FERNANDO SENRA I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - fro...
GARY LINEKER Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record cont...
CLAY AIKEN
I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and t... LUCY WALKER Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BB...
KEN STOTT It is an opportunity to depict the energy and enthusiasm of this region in a very compelling way.
BRIAN GOERKE
Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more. OPRAH WINFREY We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.
DOUG EWELL Benjamin was an instrumental music major, and the project started with a composition, and the screen...
BEN WALKER When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.
ED KEON This is a great opportunity for me, ... I'm fortunate to have an opportunity to learn more about the...
LOUISIANA TECH My life is upside down, but that is okay because it gives me an opportunity to have a different and ...
ROSA M. BETANCES It was a golden opportunity for the government of India to show a human face. But the government mis...
YASIN MALIK I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stag...
AL LEITER That's our plan. We're already behind the 8-ball, but we have to do it some time, ... This opportuni...
LARRY MCCLURE When I signed up for the show, my ultimate goal was being a role model for 13 million readers, but t...
JULIE LELAND
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ... 
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i... 
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. 
I like sitting and writing with my buddies. 
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is g... 
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's... 
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ... 
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself. 
Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff. 
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever. 
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me. 
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Sm... 
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go... 
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... 
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work ... 
Bad things happen sometimes. 
I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music. 
Creative people are more prone to depression. 