Quotes About Opportunity

Our young people need safe, permanent housing, so they can focus on their education or job, live healthy lives, and pursue their interests - without fear of where they'll sleep at night.

There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India is no longer seen as an undesirable place to work or pursue research.

I think sometimes we put too much of a gravity on what it is that we do... I just think you go out into the world, and if the door is open, pursue with excellence whatever it is that you feel you are called to pursue.

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Truly, this is a nation that sees itself as one that instills hope and is really about allowing people to pursue their dreams.

I've very much moved on and I want to pursue other things. I've done 'Emmerdale,' I wanted to move on and do other things.

I never expect someone to work with me forever. I want to give you the experience needed so that when it is time to pursue what you want to in life you are ready.

We should be encouraging - not penalizing - folks who want to pursue higher education.

We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

Coming back to America to pursue music is a dream.

Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?

America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.

A project like 'Rizzoli & Isles' is something you can't pursue. It's something that comes to you... I like to call it 'fairy dust.' And it happened without my having to do anything.

Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.

You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.