Opportunity Quotes - Page 22

• ... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Sex, Men, Vote

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• Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Men, Sky, Suffering

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• If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

  Frank Sinatra

  Mean, People, Havens

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• ...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Sex, Boys, Should Have

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon.

  Maurice Samuel

  Dream, Missing, Luck

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• ...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Mother, Self Worth, Thinking

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• The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.

  William Morris Davis

  Book, Thinking, Grieving

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• All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Intelligent, Class, America

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• I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.

  Ariel Pink

  Home, Moon, Technology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the most important things, that we [in US] have to engage is unleashing our domestic energy production opportunities. It does come down to "drill, baby, drill," in addition to an "all of the above" energy policy.

  Sarah Palin

  Baby, Important, Doe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.

  Michael Ian Black

  Regret, Believe, Ideas

  "The Best-Laid Plans of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

  Future

  Writing, Artist, Given

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I had an opportunity to make an album - that was a dream come true. I had to make sure that I could do it the best way I could, and at least at the end of it be very pleased with it and not regret anything. So that took a lot of concentration. Being isolated really helps with that.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Dream, Regret, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.

  Katy Perry

  Perfect, Waiting, Granted

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Keys, Usa

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Land, Democracy, Liberty

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.46, Melville House

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• The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Two, Differences

  Source: collider.com

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• Potter for me is something that's been giving me these amazing opportunities to start a career and learn while I'm doing, which is the best way to learn.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Careers, Amazing Opportunities, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You've got to deal with the next stage of life. You've got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Jobs, School, Order

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Sometimes you're working in highly emotional scenes and you'll get lost in the moment. You're having fun with your friend at work. It's an opportunity to give to them as much as they've given back to you.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Fun, Emotional, Giving

  "Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia Talk Heroes". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. November 10, 2006.

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• I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

  Anne Hathaway

  Drug, Want, Drink

  Interview with Milosh Marinovich, www.cbsnews.com. June 21, 2006.

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• That's the beauty of being an actress, is that you hopefully get to have different roles and really stretch yourself. This is really what I've been working for a while. I've been in the business for a minute, and it's an opportunity like this that I've been really working towards.

  Eva Mendes

  Different, Roles, Actresses

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it's drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are.

  Bryan Cranston

  Drama, Musical, Able

  "Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston Talk BREAKING BAD, Deciding to End the Series, the Series Finale, the Saul Goodman Spin-off, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people in the business realize that. It's not about that. Yeah, we all want to be successful, but we all just want to create and we want to tell the stories. We want to continue creating the opportunities to be able to continue doing what we love. So, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win-win for everybody to be able to make these independent films.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Independent, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.

  Jessica Alba

  Kids, Trying, Stuff

  "Jessica Alba Talks Escape From Planet Earth, the Voice Recording Process, Finally Making Sin City: a Dame to Kill For, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 18, 2013.

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