Quotes About Opportunity

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That's what it's all about, just helping.

I don't want the 'supersub' label or anything like that. I just want to come on and express myself and play the best I can.

It's important for women to have each other's backs. I'd like my label to give women the resources they need to flourish.

As an Asian immigrant coming in, for the longest time I still had problems getting in the lot because they're just not used to seeing someone like me who's directing these films. I do think ultimately there's a point where we can kind of just shed that label and become filmmakers.

I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.

I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, 'Who is she?' But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

I never used to get calls from artists or labels, but once you have a top 20 hit, you start getting them.

People don't know how to reach record labels, and a lot of time labels don't listen to stuff that's sent in randomly.

I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.

We have lots of students graduating from our high schools, and you import the labor, then we're not giving that opportunity to our own folks.

Black men with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged group in the labor market.

School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.

Opportunity must be underpinned by security - and Labour must offer that security.

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

My job is making sure that every child gets a good school place. If there is a particular disadvantage to a community, you invest more. Because that's the Labour way.

The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.

I've been building classrooms for children. Computer labs for kids. It's such a huge problem and so many children just aren't given a chance in life.