- 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
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
- Equip
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly just want to be happy and continue to work hard; I love life and every opportunity presented.
- Nov 07, 2020
What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it's the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there with a good team behind you and have a part you want to audition for really makes it a joy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy to get the opportunity to be one of the leading men in one of their productions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always great when you get a chance to give someone an opportunity to step outside his envelope and show people that he can do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to Swansea, no one said to me: ‘Whatever happens you're going to be No. 1.' But I felt I would at least have the chance to start or be given an opportunity and then it would be up to me to take it.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always saw TPP as something that we want to be part of. In the beginning, we were not part of TPP, neither Canada or Mexico. So when we finally joined the negotiations, to us it was an opportunity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we've been able to establish good relationships with people on President Trump's team, and that gives us an opportunity to do better than what most people expect in terms of the relationship. And we are working towards that on many fronts, particularly on trade.
- Award
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
- Nov 07, 2020
I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020