Quotes About Progress

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

I'm always thankful for the stuff I went through and thankful for the people I've met, and I'm thankful even for some of the bad times because all of it helps get you to wherever you are in your life.

Moin Bhai has played a significant role in my career and I am thankful to him for where I am today.

I'm thankful that I was able to show a better side of me in acting, and I hope that you'll continue to have high expectations for me.

Some people just don't want to see change, but thankfully there are a lot of people more optimistic for something new in music, even with the bigger picture like with Obama getting elected.

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.

Thankfully 'Uyir' happened. Things have changed for good since then.

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

All you can dream for is opportunity, and I've been very fortunate to have that over the years. That's all thanks to some great people.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

The world is getting smaller thanks to technology.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine the course of their lives, their jobs, their creative works, and their identities over the course of a decade. Much of this increased freedom is thanks to economic engagement by the West.

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.

I've seen what you can do in this grassroots, do-it-yourself world, and I've seen how far that can get you. To be iconic, you still need the gatekeepers to open the doors.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.