Opportunity Quotes

I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs.

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

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.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.