Quotes About Opportunity

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'

My goal was to have a company off the ground by the time I graduated. But the worst-case scenario was I would have an MBA and a lot of opportunities ahead of me.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.

I graduated from college and went straight into a job with MTV.

I graduated college, my degree is in theatre, so I went to Chicago and tried to get into the theatre scene up there, but it was real hard to break in and find paying work.

I graduated with a bachelor's degree, $60,000 in debt, and due to have a baby in a month.

Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are graduating, you have to figure some of our children are getting a greater equalizer than others.

After graduating, the jobs that I got were TV, so you sort of move to where the jobs are. But I would absolutely go back to theater if the role was right.

I moved to L.A. straight out of graduating my arts high school and worked three jobs to afford living while taking acting classes and auditioning often.

I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.

I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress.

When I came to Chennai from Coimbatore after my graduation, looking for acting chances, it was for dubbing that I was first tried.

School days were very special to me as I never found the time to complete my graduation.

I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.

If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person.

One of the first country artists I got to work with was Carrie Underwood at the Grammy Awards.

The United States... is the greatest nation on Earth, and I believe there are things that make us special - and one is this grand democratic experiment.

There's so much pressure on young people to go to university when they're 18 or 19, but actually, in the grand scheme of it, I don't think it matters to do it at that time.

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way.

It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I'll fight anybody, any time. I'll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.