Quotes About Opportunity

We always may be what we might have been.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

I'm doing a bit of theatre: I'm doing a Mike Bartlett play called 'Contractions.' I'm very, very happy and lucky to be going back to the stage.

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

Mike Flanagan wants to work with me again, and I would love to work with him again.

Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'

I really want to work with Mike Leigh.

I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the 'Avatar' world. We would be really excited.

I am very happy to coach AC Milan, it's a very big opportunity for me because Milan is the club of my life.

In 2008 or 2009, every big club wanted me: Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barca, Real, Chelsea, Manchester.

When I was 18 it was my last season in Milan. I was 18 turning 19 and it was my last season in Milan and I knew that that year was very important for me. A lot of scouts were coming to every game.

If I play well for Holland, I am sure that I will have my chance for Milan.

The decision to go to Milan, as everyone knows, made me mature as a man. It was a big chance and perhaps too big for the man I was at the time.

At Milan, I'm giving everything I've got during training to earn myself a chance. I honestly don't know why I can't find space in the team, even on the bench.

When a club like Milan is interested, there are not many players who would say 'no.'

After '8 Mile' came out and blew up, the ball has been rolling ever since.

When you live in the projects, everything you need is in a mile radius: a basketball court, an indoor gym, a school, a grocery store, a shopping center.

Being on 'Grease: Live' was a massive mile marker. It ultimately led me to 'Hamilton.'

We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

In coming to New York, I got my first Broadway show six months after I got here. So that song, 'Movin' Too Fast,' means so much to me, knowing that feeling where it's just where you imagined yourself, but it's flying by you at a million miles an hour.