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I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have. -- Anthony Mackie
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. -- James McGreevey
Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life. -- Katherine Heigl
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. -- Billy Corgan
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. -- Simone Weil
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. -- Joe Torre
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. -- Clay Aiken
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. -- Gregor Mendel
Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that. -- Anthony Anderson
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce. -- Charles B. Rangel
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us. -- Henry Rollins
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past. -- Jim Walton
Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted. -- Vitruvius
We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it. -- Michael N. Castle
You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. -- Guglielmo Marconi
I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety. -- James McAvoy
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. -- J. L. Austin
There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible. -- Amanda Palmer
If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature. -- Eddie Vedder
I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God. -- John Nelson Darby
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! -- Kerry Washington
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience. -- Nancy Gibbs
Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church. -- David A. Bednar
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I think that everybody's worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between the talent and the crew. Those are the hardest jobs to do your best in, because as you're performing, you're aware that the people around you, because they haven't been afforded the respect that they deserve, they're not as invested. -- Jessalyn Gilsig
Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels. -- Lauren Kate
People work better when they are afforded to be themselves -- Stella McCartney
I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me. -- Brandon Marshall
The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission. -- Mason Cooley
I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded. -- Dalia Mogahed
We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves. -- Garth Stein
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. -- Richard Whately
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. -- Marlon Brando
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories. -- Kelsey Chow
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility. -- Maria Monk
Only when Spirit and Science are reunited will we be afforded the means to a better world. -- Bruce H. Lipton
Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country. -- Marsha Blackburn
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege. -- Michael Graves
People who are labeled as disrespectful do not get the same opportunities afforded to those who are labeled as respectful. -- Andy Andrews
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them. -- Brad Thor
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry. -- Benjamin Tucker
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. -- Anish Kapoor
New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time. -- Dean Winters
It's exciting to kind of move forward and take hold of the opportunity that "Twilight's" afforded us, but it's also kind of sad. -- Ashley Greene
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality. -- Sathya Sai Baba
My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young. -- Kirsten Dunst
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science. -- Mary Somerville
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded. -- Henry David Thoreau
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. -- James Madison
Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson. -- Nick Offerman
I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever. -- Anthony Mackie
Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.' -- Barbara Carrera
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force. -- Anthony de Jasay
When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience. -- David Hume
Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life -- whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor, -- Jean Chretien
This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to - the last retreat. -- William Cowper
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone. -- Octavia Spencer
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it. -- Peter Capaldi
If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film, and that whole world. -- Grace Helbig
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past. -- Jim Walton
The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now. -- Vinton Cerf
My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future. -- Alexandra Bracken
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids. -- Shirley Jones
I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids. -- Shirley Jones
It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it. -- Dorothy Hamill
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce. -- Charles B. Rangel
Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that. -- CM Punk
A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor. -- Henry David Thoreau
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do. -- Robert Plant
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard. -- Shakira
We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. -- John F. Kennedy
Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of. -- Carmen Ejogo
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us. -- Gloria Allred
Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices are treated as second class forms of speech and singled out for discrimination. -- Mathew Staver

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