Quotes About Opportunity

People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.

I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realise their full potential.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

I come from the ghetto in Brazil, where we don't have a lot of career opportunities, so I'm sure my family and people who live there never imagined that one day I'd become a singer and be able to perform at an event like the Olympics.

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

Being a host is a completely new role for me and I am surely enjoying it.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

I think that we are trying to move towards the First World slowly but surely. But we must do a good job for the people left way behind. That's why extreme poverty, for us, is a priority.

Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?

In future I will surely look forward to doing Hollywood projects.

While I am open to doing a Gujarati film, I don't want to be a part of anything stereotypical. It has to be something out of the box, if something like that comes up, I will surely do it.

If I come across a good project, I will surely take it up.

Yes, I would surely like to work with Neha in a family oriented or a romantic-comedy, or in any Punjabi film.

At times you get the sense that if the batsman is playing with the tailender then he will surely try to run a double.

The beauty of my job is I do all different kinds of film directing, not just surf films anymore. And I do stuff from commercials to short films to working on feature films, and none of it is based from where I live. It's all based elsewhere, so I can live anywhere and commute to where I need to go.

Just scratching the surface. It's just the beginning. I'm still young. I've got a lot of time to grow.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.