- 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
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
- Big Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, I was a troubled kid. I was going to get kicked out of a Christian school and got sent to military school for a year and a half, and I didn't really have much direction until I got the opportunity to drive race cars.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most parents are able to be with their kid every day. Every day of their life, their parents have an opportunity to be with them, and we don't have that luxury as professional athletes. That's the hardest thing.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sing when both directors and producers compel me. I'd rather give that opportunity to a gifted newcomer, to whom it makes a huge difference. There are a lot of talented youngsters out there, who can do with such opportunities. Helping them matters to me more than my singing.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been an amazing journey. I've been pursuing a career in this industry for a long time, so when I was finally given an opportunity, I didn't take it for granted.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I train everything: I train wrestling; I train jiu-jitsu. I like to suplex people. I like ground-and-pound, but in my fight, I never have the opportunity.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Amanda Nunes truly wants an opportunity at the 145-lb. belt, a win against any ranked contender in that division would help establish her back in a weight class she left before fighting me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020