One of my most rewarding congressional duties is nominating future military leaders to study at America's service academies. The exceptional young men and women who receive these coveted nominations earn a top-of-the-line education and the opportunity to serve their country as a military officer.
Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.
I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there's a chance to give back, to the community, to the less fortunate kids so they have the opportunity to gain the most potential they can in their life to be success, it's always good to do.
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
Being passed up by teams because of my size made me hungry. I've seen a lot of first-round guys who come in and never really do nothing because they may not appreciate the opportunity because everything has been given to them. I think guys who come from the bottom understand how hard it is, so they appreciate the opportunities more.
By exciting citizens about the new digital opportunity, breaking down silos of competing groups to form a truly open innovation ecosystem and shifting day-to-day resources to focus on big long-term investments for the future, countries can ensure that they break through and bridge the digital gap.
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.
We have an opportunity with the Model S to refine the design language, the surfacing, and all aspects of functionality.
Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two people who were not ready to be parents. I admire them for giving her the chance for a better life. And I am grateful they gave my husband and me the opportunity to be parents.
Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
When you have the opportunity, you strike.
Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.
I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.
I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.
It's so hard in the NFL, man. You spend the course of a long week preparing for one opportunity. And once you get that opportunity and you get in that moment, it's just an amazing feeling. It's something you should celebrate about, something you should be excited about.
Everybody at Axa has understood that digital is there, that digital changes our business, and also that digital can create an opportunity.
I was just a young kid out of Mexico, Missouri, and then Kansas City, having an opportunity to play at the University of Nebraska, where I grew as a man.
If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
