Quotes About Opportunity

We want to generate jobs in the U.S.

Industrialisation only can generate large-scale employment.

People no longer have one job for life, so it is right that younger generations adapt.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Greater financial success has allowed me to be more generous.

I love the industry I'm in, and it's been really generous to me.

I love football. It's been very generous to me.

A lot of guys have made it from a lot of different places, and not necessarily because they had parents with great genes. They worked really hard, and they used the resources they had as well as they could.

Your genetics is not your destiny.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.

I still don't know what genre I fit into. I want to try my hand at different things and find out what I am best at. I want to discover myself as an actress.

I'm so happy that I get to try different genre of songs within Bollywood.

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

I love bouncing between different genres. And comedy, obviously, is something I enjoy doing the most and I've had the most success with. But I'm open to all jobs and all genres.

I would like to act in films of all genres.

I truly believe that cinema is a collaborative effort, and as long as I get to tell, and be part of, interesting stories and work with genuine people, I don't see any project as a 'risk.'

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

Working on the franchise and getting direction from George Lucas - it's something that I never thought would take place.

I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age 19 at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival that I felt like my career started.

We really want to be successful in America, we really want to try it. There are not so many German bands who get the chance to come to America to play.

Playing in the German Bundesliga gave me the platform to excel in my football career.