The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, attacked a number of friendly Shawnee towns along the Mad River.
God has always opened up doors at the right time. He’s closed doors at the right time.
The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.
The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.
I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
It’s very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
I’m lucky that my restaurant partners are my wife Liz and Doug Petkovic. We opened our first restaurant over 15 years ago. And we didn’t open up our second restaurant for almost ten years. So that gave us a good foundation of employees.
A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
My favorite book in life is ‘A Wrinkle In Time,’ which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
‘Heathers’ was probably the first time when I started to notice that people were opening doors for me and giving me tables at restaurants, regardless of what I was wearing. A whole world opened up to me that was shocking and weird and different, and I enjoyed it, and, you know, I took great advantage of it at times.
I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.
I had learned of Gertrude Stein’s bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells – and then running off again and away before the door was opened behind me.
In 1983, when I did ‘Sindhu Bhairavi’ and played the other woman, many men came up to me and said it opened up a lot to them. The film showed that a man and woman could have an intellectual and artistic relationship.
There are few relationships that give as unconditionally as food. I have opened and shut down restaurants and slept on the streets, but I have always bounced back because my belief in the relationship has been strong.
I even opened a nightclub called Evonne’s.
I love Valentine’s Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is ‘When Harry Met Sally.’
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.
My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
It’s incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: ‘Chicago,’ ‘Wicked’ and ‘Anything Goes.’
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
‘Modern Family’ has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful.
I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about ‘Downton’ being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.
I was a painting contractor for a while and then a dog trainer. I opened my own business dog training and had some success.
Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
There were always moments where I’d say, ‘What else can I do with my life?’ But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write – I wrote ‘Black Cloud’ in six weeks – it opened up a whole new world for me.
The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It’s not something that I’m embarrassed of. I think it’s something people should want to aspire to.
Doors opened for me because of who I am. But the downside is, there is way way too much expectation from me, much more than there would have been if I were from outside the film industry.
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.
We just decided to pick the date ‘The Matrix’ opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.
‘Baaghi 2’ opened in less than 5,000 screens and its ticket prices were also not high, as it’s not a festival season release. Yet, it has made the kind of money that has shocked the trade.
I’ve written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.
The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff – we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!
I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children’s Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
If we’re talking about guys who set the tone, you’ve got to go way back. But if we’re talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles, Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door, along with Daniel Bryan.
Slumdog Millionaire has been a great achievement. It has opened the doors of Hollywood for Indian cinema.
I don’t have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it’s already opened doors for me.
If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of both. This strategy is helpful for occasions that involve a public opening of presents, like a bridal or baby shower. You can give something that can be wrapped and opened, along with a card containing a check.
Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
I’m really grateful for every opportunity I have received because each job has opened new doors to levels that wouldn’t have been possible without the previous one. So in that sense, every job has been career defining.
At the age of 46, in my sixth prison term, it was the second prison I was in – California Rehabilitation Center. The California Civil Education program kind of opened up all of the experiences that that I had dealt with in my life, that I had experienced.
I never doubted myself when I opened my first restaurant. You’ve got to give 100% of yourself until you know you’ve done it. But it was still a struggle.
I just love the storyline, I thought it was hilarious – I loved that part when we opened the door, we all look ahead and we have to look down and see that we’re actually dealing with this little boy who did this horrible thing of ordering a wife through e-mail.
In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.
There have been some doors opened to us as a result of our being a minority-owned business. But that’s not going to sustain us over the long term.
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
In 15 years, we’ve raised $225 million, sequenced the myeloma genome, and opened 45 trials of 23 drugs – six approved by the FDA – which have doubled the life span of multiple myeloma patients. I’ve taken both Velcade and Revlimid, which we helped develop.
