Afforded Quotes

There are many things I can improve on. I`m challenged every day, and I still want to work hard and earn what I`ve been afforded.

I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.

I`m very grateful for the career that I`ve had. And I`m very grateful for the experiences that "Star Trek" has afforded me along with my past background. When I look back and think how fortunate I`ve been to work with some wonderful people and had some marvelous experiences, then I can look at "Star Trek" and think it`s almost like the cream on the coffee. I don`t approach it as anything but a magnificent plus.

I was a bit of a freak, but because I had a few older brothers I was afforded protection and people just kind of let me join their gangs. I was a kind of Zelig figure, moving between different groups. I`d hang with the jocks, the burn-outs, the academic types and I could empathise with all of them. I was curious about all of them, but I know I never felt I fitted in with them, you know? It sounds odd saying it now, but I just wasn`t right there - until I started doing plays and then it was, like: "Ah, my people."

I`ve played Loch Lomond - that`s the one with the bogs isn`t it? I played the one with the lighthouse. When we were in Liverpool we used to take the ferry and go to Northern Ireland. Films get in the way of my golf, but they have afforded me the chance to play a lot of golf.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn`t have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn`t possibly have gone.

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.

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

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.

Until Majority Leader Tom DeLay has his day in court, it is vitally important he be afforded the same presumption of innocence afforded to every other American,

With Ms. Truesdale`s current CD album, `I know Him` on Nashville`s CIS-Christian label, Jeanie Kay has brought forth an array of inspirational music sure to please any listener, ... Her soulful voice and her emotional, believable musical delivery reaches audiences in a direct manner not often afforded many singers.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to answer the committee`s questions but on the advice of my counsel I respectfully decline to answer the question based on the protection afforded to me under the Constitution of the United States.

The building is actually steel and concrete, which is more like the new construction we`re doing. So it all of a sudden afforded us really good bones.

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.

We felt we had afforded ourselves the right to do what we want to do. Just taking off the makeup, it`s another look, `cause no one`s ever seen us! We just felt it`s what we needed to do now.

A conviction that a great European war under modem conditions would be a catastrophe for which previous wars afforded no precedent.

We never had any expectations for our first album, so I don`t know why we should start now. We hope that we at least sell the same amount we sold of our last album. If it`s more than that, great. We`re on an independent label so we`re not afforded the same things that major label bands are. We don`t have the same outlets available to us, but we have different outlets that work for us that don`t work for major label bands.

(The broadcast delay) afforded us an opportunity to promote to a very broad audience. We get a very good cross-section of demographics of both genders that come to the Games, and people that don`t watch CBC all the time.

They are afforded any opportunity that exists while they are gone.

Our students are afforded opportunities to win bikes. If they come by 8:10 a.m., they put their name into a drawing.

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.