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A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
I love the idea of not being able to afford something and just making your own version or buying a cheap knock-off instead.
My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.
I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.
As an already high-demand, low-density military asset, we cannot afford to lose the JSTARS's BMC2/ISR unparalleled capability.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.
I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.
A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.
If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.
Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'
I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
There is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean, just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.
When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say.
No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.
I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.