It’s a special club, and everybody opened their arms to me from the first day. The fans and my team-mates treated me wonderfully since the day I arrived, and that warmth has made a madridista. Whatever happens, Real Madrid will always be in my heart.
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
I have a really hard time meeting people, so I wanted to take classes to get out of my social shell. Eventually, I opened up and realized, ‘Wow, I really enjoy this.’
We’ve always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we’re the world’s most famous opening act because we’ve opened for every huge band on the planet.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it’s opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
Tennis has opened a number of possibilities for me, and in future, it would be great to give something back.
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May ’93.
Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn’t even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn’t deserve.
I did not want my tombstone to read, ‘She kept a really clean house.’ I think I’d like them to remember me by saying, ‘She opened government to everyone.’
The small things that make Christmas magical are the things children will remember. It doesn’t matter what they open on Christmas morning, I don’t remember what was in half the boxes I opened as a kid. What mattered were the decorations, the cookies that were mysteriously eaten, and the stockings that were filled.
In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the new party to reshape the national government, from protecting the wealth of propertied men to promoting economic opportunity for everyone.
If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two hours here in Miami. Cubans in Miami would be the first to buy. In Miami, 80 percent of the people we sell to are foreigners. Havana is a city very similar to Miami… There’s good music, good theater, good ballet.
Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It’s closed very few.
Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me – an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American – there were limits.
‘Beverly Hills Cop’ opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.
Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.
Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.
Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‘Would you take my son with you?’ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in ‘Downton’ will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
If I could time-travel, I would either go to the ’70s and watch the first ‘Star Wars’ film the day it opened, or to 1880s London, during the Jack the Ripper era, and experience the true grossness of that time.
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
‘Dragons’ Den’ and ‘The Apprentice’ have opened people’s eyes to what they can do.
I do not have a Facebook page, and I do not chat on Twitter. I don’t have a web site, even if there are people who have opened one in my name, complete with my photo.
I have a lot to thank Italy for. It’s the country that opened the door to professional football for me.
I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.
Boxing life is very interesting life; it opened many doors for me around the world, but now I am ready to invest my energy and my experience and my power for the future.
I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.
I started boxing aged 15 when a local man, Ricardo Linari, opened a boxing club in Margarita. I just seemed to be able to knock people out, and that power has stayed with me.
I know where I’m going to be, I’m not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn’t necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this.
‘E.T.’ and ‘Star Wars’ were cult movies then and opened up a brand new world of adventure and mystery. But as much as I would have loved to be friends with E.T., I realized that following in the footsteps of Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan was more realistic.
Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep at the bar with people who were not necessarily here to dine. They just wanted to kinda sniff out the hot, new restaurant.
God is not going to sit up here and judge you for what you’ve done in the past. Church has opened up my mind in a whole different aspect.
Working on ‘Girls’ opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It’s like a dream job. It’s a dream.
My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner.
I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.
‘A Passage To India’ by E. M. Forster – It opened my mind to a world I’d never known before.
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.
I’ve been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.
Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.
When television emerged, it opened up many avenues for actors like me, but after a point, it also became very limiting.
Had you met me when I was 18 I was very, very patriotic almost to the point of sounding a little bit bigoted or racist, but then I moved away, came to London, my eyes were opened and I saw the world.
The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
I’m insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can’t wait to have babies.
If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won’t see that much change, but if you come once a year, you’ll see big new categories opened up.
I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.
We got word that Mick Jagger heard our first album and liked it. And he wanted us to open for the Stones in Hawaii. That just blew us away. But the next thing I heard was that Stevie Wonder opened for them here in the States and actually got booed at one show. So I was scared to death.
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
I graduated from West Point in 1974. It was an all-male institution. I went back to teach at West Point in 1984 and found the place far better than it was when I had been a cadet… I attributed a good amount of that to the fact that we opened up the academy to women.
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn’t have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.
