#potential

The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country....If we had lost Oprah Winfrey at 25, we would have lost a relatively unknown, local market TV anchorwoman. If we had lost Malcolm X at 25, we would have lost a hustler named Detroit Red. And if I had left the world at 25, we would have lost a big-band trumpet player and aspiring composer--just a sliver of my eventual life potential. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#lost-potential #death

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#actor #calls #college #cops #experience

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#full #grants #greatest #head #head start

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#flaw #give #i #i can #i do

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#desire #ever #federer #only #potential

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#beings #freedom #full #human #human beings

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. ↗

— Ann Rule

#away #back #battered #books #cause

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#better #federal #federal government #first #government

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can. ↗

— John Sexton

#class #exceptional #first #first time #i

I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#detrimental #everybody #feel #good #group