#pursue

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american dream #dream #high #high school #opportunity

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#adequately #any #by the time #choose #college

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me. ↗

— Rick Baker

#been #come #done #films #funny

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#career #enough #good #honestly #i

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#destruction #heritage #long-term #policy #preserve

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#colors #existence #like #our #pursue

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#dream #dreams #i #kids #only

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#divorce #dreams #drive #gave #grow

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#come #dream #keep #kind #life

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#ambassador #bigger #bring #chess #events