Quotes About Opportunity

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

In my own experience, when we have an open directing assignment of any kind, not just the big films, I would say it is the exception, not the rule, that there is a woman in the group of directors that we are interviewing. I think that's from the pool being so small.

I want my projects to be great, of course. The talent has to come from a diverse pool. Because that's the world we live in.

Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried out. So diversity should not be a problem but rather an opportunity to involve a large talent pool.

Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.

International cricket and Test cricket in particular is hard and you are going to get injuries but, if you've got a strong pool of players to pick from who can all come in and do a job, well that can only be a good thing for English cricket.

I think you can assume because our pool of Asian-Americans actresses or actors - men and women - is pretty small, that whatever project is out there I probably have been asked to audition or I probably chose to not go in it for various aspects.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

He who hesitates is poor.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.