Quotes About Opportunity

If you were an actress in a film that had been nominated for five Oscars, including one for yourself, you would expect to have scripts landing on the door step.

I buy when other people are selling.

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.

Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

I want to continue working in Mexico, but I'd also like to work in other countries eventually, too. Working behind the camera is interesting for me, too.

You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.

One of the flaws in the American dream is that there isn't as much of a safety net as you may get in other countries.

It's great to be able to bring the best players from other countries and that they want to play in our league.

The fact I'm blind has been a great help to my career. If I'd been sighted I'd have played baseball and got into trouble like all other kids on my block.

I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.

I remember my father, when I was a kid, retiring me on 50. He never used to let me bat past 50. He'd say I had to retire to give the other kids an opportunity.

I feel blessed that I got an opportunity to work with the likes of A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar among others.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.

I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

It is so gratifying to hear from people who look up to you and see you in these places that they never thought they could ever dream to be. It's emotional. You really feel like you're opening up people's minds, who otherwise thought that they couldn't dream big. That's such a huge opportunity. It's such a gift.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.