Quotes About Opportunity

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

We'll get way further if we educate people and not lock them up.

I get this call and they go, you know, 'Do you want to do the finals?' and I go, 'Yeah, I guess, I've never, never done the finals.' Especially for somebody who's done as many thousands of games as I have, it kind of takes you one step further.

When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.

This healthy eating stuff, it's here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

I just decided that I wasn't going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn't afford it anyway, so I left school very early and went to work and progressively did things.

We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.

I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I look to gain experience wherever I play.

If you're in P10 and you're getting caught from behind from P11 or the other way round... there's that one point to gain... and there's not really a lot to lose.

Coming to Beijing, throughout all of what has happened and the success I have gained, I look at it as I was just fortunate and blessed.

The beauty of Bumble and this world of online connecting is it gives you access. Going down to the bar, what is your access? What is the access you're gaining there? Really, only a few people.

Being with Dortmund and playing in more big games there, it's just gaining experience.

It is all about gaining in confidence with every given opportunity.

People were endlessly trying to set me up with 'eligible' men, and I enjoyed going on a galaxy of dates.

Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.