Quotes About Opportunity

I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

I want to see Texas remain an entrepreneurial powerhouse in the United States.

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.

I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity!

Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when they have been mistakenly arrested.

When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the countryside that the money train is pulling into the station. Hop on board!

I was 14, and I played this club that's no longer there because it was poorly managed: the Texas Tea House in Fort Worth.

From a scientific point of view, it's hard for me to understand why someone in the Texas Panhandle should not have access to the same research funds that someone in the Oklahoma Panhandle can have.

East Texas isn't known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn't the type of guy that put my name out there.

I got my name in the hat for 2019 Mayor of Houston, Texas.

I was a three-star recruit, went to Texas A&M, and no one really talked about me there.

I'm a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I've gotten to travel the world. I got to live all over the world.

Being a musician in Texas had its own set of risks.

I wasn't getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player.

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

The system in which I came up in was that every territory had to have a black, a white... if you went to Texas you had to have somebody that was a cowboy or one that was from Mexico. There wasn't that many Afro Americans in the business at the time so I moved around a lot. But every time I moved around, I made money.

I felt that I didn't get a fair chance at Texas Tech to compete, for an assortment of reasons, but reasons I couldn't really control.

What a lot of people don't know is that I got started as a professional gamemaker when I moved out to Texas to join George Broussard and Scott Miller and Allen Blum who created Duke Nukem, to join those guys and become part of the 'Duke Nukem 3D.'

I came from a prep school in New Jersey, so I get that when I got to FSU, some people weren't sure about me - I didn't play in Florida or Texas or at a powerhouse high school.