#opportunity

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#again #beginning #came #career #class

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine. ↗

— Michael Nyman

#because #disappointed #gain #him #his

I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#country #develop #endeavor #foreign #friends

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#draw #explore #gives #ideas #imagination

And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early. ↗

— John Pomfret

#early #enough #get #go #i

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

#comes #disguised #hard #hard work #opportunity

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#excited #i #more #movie #opportunity

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#chefs #eat #even #good #inform

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#also #being #changing #express #great

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day. ↗

— Bar Refaeli

#each #gave #i #me #modeling