- 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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an honour for me that Mainz gives me the opportunity to prove myself in another top European league.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I obviously wanted to keep wrestling and stay in the business. The opportunity came up with WWE, and it's been an incredible experience.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started here, I didn't really have prior plans. I just wanted to be part of WWE, to get the opportunity to show what I can do.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020