Diminished Prospects Quotes

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

Americans can accept that the American Dream will not work out for them; what has been heartbreaking for so many is the sense that their children will have it even worse.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

I haven't had the most lucrative career. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm a one-hit wonder.

I didn't get a lot of industry action after 'Fast Times.'

The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!