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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.
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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.
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I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.
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With every passing week, I get an opportunity to improve my acting because I get to do it day in, day out. So a lot of times, I compare it to being a professional athlete.
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
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I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
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I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.
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- Nov 07, 2020