- Nov 07, 2020
Opportunity Quotes
Words on access, equity, and potential.
These opportunity quotes come largely from people working to expand educational access, describing the gap between talent sent toward finance or law and talent sent toward underserved communities. One entry questions why a country built on equal opportunity still lets birthplace determine outcomes. Related reflections continue in our Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much less persuasion.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
- Drummer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020