For Opportunity Quotes

Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities.

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.

I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

I still dont consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, Ill go onto something else.

Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.

With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.

Every now and then say, 'What the fu©k.' 'What the fu©k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.

From that viewpoint, America, free country, democratic country, so more opportunity. Still is more sort of Alive. This is my feeling.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

A script like Nightcrawler gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision thats mine, which is exciting.

You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.

Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

We need to have an honest conversation about the policies that are generating opportunity and prosperity.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

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.

I'll miss some of the opportunities that playing Harry [Potter] brought me.