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Hal Whitehead Biologist
Opportunity

"I was very lucky. I was just finishing my PhD at Cambridge in 1981. This opportunity came up because whaling was drawing to an end. There was the prospect of a moratorium, and one of the arguments that was brought up, especially by Japanese whalers, was that, if we didn't have whaling, we would know nothing of whales. All the science depends on having dead animals, they argued, so that's one of the benefits of the whaling industry."

Opportunity Animal Lucky
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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
Opportunity

"Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction."

Giving Opportunity Unique
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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
Opportunity

"In most cases there are obstacle standing between you and those opportunities in life but, I just want you to know that front row seat is available everywhere."

Want Opportunity Obstacles
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Opportunity

"There are so many people who've come before me who deserved to be tired. Who didn't have the opportunities, who didn't have the access, who didn't have the money, who didn't have the influence, who didn't have the voice."

Opportunity Voice Tired
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Opportunity

"The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future."

Way Opportunity Steps
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Opportunity

"I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself."

Looks Opportunity Encounters
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Opportunity

"Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better"

Opportunity Morning Getting Older
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Opportunity

"I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready."

Believe Opportunity Blessing
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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Opportunity

"To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself."

Giving Artist Opportunity
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
Opportunity

"Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish."

Opportunity Political Errors
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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
Opportunity

"I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think."

Thinking Opportunity Exotic
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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Opportunity

"People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them."

Opportunity Reading Coffee
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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Opportunity

"The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up."

Opportunity Kings Hard Work
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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Opportunity

"I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it."

People Thinking Opportunity
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Opportunity

"We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives."

Thinking Jobs Opportunity
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