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"I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche."
"But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time."
"We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them."
"Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain."
"Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage."
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn."
"My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity."
"A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents."
"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great."
"Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision."
"Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity."
"There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself."
"Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes."
"Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be."
"Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy."
"We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth."
"The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents."
"It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV."
"The lower you start, the more opportunities you have."
"With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable."
