Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.
My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Interpersonal tensions can provide opportunities that transform an early childhood curriculum from pre-primary preparedness to sites of political practice.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.
So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.
Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.
I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct a feature film.
If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.
I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.
