Quotes About Opportunity

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.