What’s important for my daughter to know is that…if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well. – Kamala Harris
All of us have been participating in systems that have been choking off black opportunity, black dignity, and the ability of black people to rise. This time, in a way I haven’t seen before, I think people care. They’re willing to hear it. – Van Jones
Star Wars has given me the opportunity to do smaller things and allowed me to say no, which is glorious. – Daisy Ridley
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. – Charles M. Schulz
I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies – smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles. – Hillary Clinton
Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late. – Greg Poehler
America’s ‘social contract’ is equal opportunity… yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal. – George Kaiser
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in. – Harvey Pekar
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It’s important to have a sense of what’s going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift. – Grace Paley
I’ve always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right. – Henrik Fisker
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House. – Harold Ramis
The opportunity to write for the ‘L.A. Weekly’ has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time. – Henry Rollins
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil. – Herbert Hoover
I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don’t really focus on celebrity status. – George Dzundza
I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct. – Gustavo Dudamel
When my brother and me got into performing in the late ’40s and early ’50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business. – Gregory Hines
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. – Ho Chi Minh
What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine. – Greg Fitzsimmons
Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom. – Henri Nouwen
I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town. – Henry Rollins
Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio. – Godfrey Hounsfield
I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings. – Heber J. Grant
Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That’s how you stand out in the crowd. – Gary Cohn
The world is full of challenges, but with those come opportunity, and I’m an opportunist. – Homaro Cantu
Every person has to keep in mind that they can grow up and reach the top, no matter where they are born, whether it’s in Russia, in Ukraine, in Europe; they’ve still got the opportunity to show their talent and the culture of their people. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
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. – Grant Hill
I’ve been part of a team and leader of the team. But wherever I’ve been, I’ve worked as if that was the only opportunity I had. I’ve never looked beyond that. – Guler Sabanci
America’s Next Shuffle Cat contest proved to be not only entertaining, but a rare chance for me to have an opportunity to host and judge some of the nation’s cutest cats as they strutted the catwalk. – Hannah Simone
