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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.
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
- Day
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I'm smiling every single day because every opportunity I've been given feels like a baby in Disneyland, I'm constantly hoping to move on to the next job.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how young Africans felt at the cusp of independence.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sleepy Hollow' was really the first thing I'd done that gave me the opportunity in the modern age to build an authentic relationship with an audience that was a lot more like what happens in theater.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the original little guy. This country gave me an opportunity. I want our tax system to do the same for others facing those same circumstances.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020