Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
I always wanted to act. I am very passionate about the art. So when I got the opportunity, I was more than happy.
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.
There's definitely no hard feelings with WWE. I'm very thankful to them for the opportunity that was given to me.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.
At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.
I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
You always have to have a bit of fun if somebody is dead in a scene. That's a red rag to a bull for an actor. You do a little poking. You do things to annoy the actor. It's your job. You have to utilize the opportunity. You have to get through the day.
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.
Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.
The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
I would describe Hyperledger as a tremendous opportunity for collaboration for firms that range from gigantic commercial concerns all the way to the smallest, newest startups. It's a community of great intellectual depth and great commercial breadth, and as such, I think the opportunity to be part of that is a unique and enriching experience.
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
My family and I couldn't be more happy for the opportunity to run with and serve with the next president of the United States.
It's very exciting... what DeAndre brings to the game is truly special. To have the opportunity to play with a football player like that, that's what gets a quarterback out of bed in the morning.
A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
All of the reality TV I've done has usually been simultaneously an opportunity to create awareness or raise funds for my mom's breast cancer organization.
Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'
Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.
