- Looking
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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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- Great Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first movie role was a supporting performance in a Canadian film called 'Final Lady.' It was a great opportunity for me at the time.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to thank the people at UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky for giving Ellen and I an opportunity to coach at three great institutions.
- Great Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, you have people shouting racist abuse and throwing bananas on the field, and there are issues regarding the number of black coaches and managers in the game, but which other industry allows a young black boy the exact same opportunity as a young white boy?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everybody gets a home slam; not everybody gets home events. I am part of a very select few who get that opportunity, so I can only really be grateful for that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a famous brother, and I see what his life's like. He can stay places 15 minutes, and then he's got to leave. So I've seen what it's like to be famous, and I haven't really aspired to be a huge mega-star - not that I've had that opportunity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is good for Alaska is good for the country. Transferring power from the federal government to the states provides opportunity to all states, not just Alaska.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020