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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my role on a team is I love to put the puck in the back of the net. If that opportunity presents itself, and it happens for me, I get really excited.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play hockey, especially when there weren't equal opportunities as there are now. But at times, it was challenging.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely devote so much more time to acting, but since it only takes a day or two to shoot and get pictures out - whereas for acting, you do an audition, or loads, and you might not get any of them - so I did the modeling stuff because, obviously, if I have the opportunity, I'm going to take it.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
- American Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I have an opportunity, I catch a train and go to Wales and hire a car and drive around.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're seeing? I think about the guy walking down the street, the guy who drove me here - this guy has the opportunity to go the cinema.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asian men are sexy, confident, and passionate - and three-dimensional. We want the opportunity to portray roles that reflect who we are in real life.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can hit the proverbial roof at certain areas in the industry unless you venture out. And I never really set out in my career to stay in one place. I wanted to go out and try new things. Luckily, I've had that opportunity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think when you come here and wave a Mexican flag in our face in a country that's giving a lot of these people an opportunity that they've never had before, I think a lot of Americans are insulted, whether they're first-, second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-generation Americans.
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- Nov 07, 2020