Quotes About Opportunity

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.

I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.

I would love to work with everyone, but I am not desperate. Things will happen eventually.

As a young mom I was kind of desperate for some happy family moments and I realized that they don't usually show up all on their own, you have to create them - or at the very least, create an opportunity for them to bloom.

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.

My parents were desperately trying to become documented citizens of this country and tried very hard to get there, but to no avail.

I desperately wanted to go to drama school and after that I've always been delighted to be offered employment - to view everything that comes my way as a chance to get better.

I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.

Despite the fact that I haven't watched a lot of serials, I always wanted to work in them.

Despite growing up in very poor circumstances, my father had big dreams.

Its true that I never ever got a chance to shoot in Jaipur, despite it being one of the most sought-after locations in our country.

Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.

I believe if you are destined to do something, things will definitely happen.

If I'm destined to play in the MLS, I will.

I feel projects are destined for actors. Whenever I find the project destined for me I'll be at it with full force.

We will ensure Arizona continues to grow jobs, not destroy them.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.

Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.