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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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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to Hollywood, I would take the opportunity to get to know George Stevens or Willy Wyler or Billy Wilder or Freddie Zinnemann. David Lean I got to know, of course, in London. And David Selznick and Darryl Zanuck, not to mention Jack Warner, and Sam Goldwyn was actually very, very nice to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020