- Great
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- 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
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
- Child Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn't be thought of as a model.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever opportunity I get, to make sure I get better, I need to take advantage of that.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020