If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

So many older people are on a very small budget and just wouldn't be able to afford a TV licence.

Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country.

Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

My dream is to one day afford a real pair of ruby slippers. For me, they will always be the ultimate shoe.

To sing with Led Zeppelin has allowed me to offer the best places I could afford to my family and friends!

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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