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Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.
I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.
I believe health care is a right, not a privilege, not something only the wealthiest 1 percent can afford it should have.
In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
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.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
As an already high-demand, low-density military asset, we cannot afford to lose the JSTARS's BMC2/ISR unparalleled capability.
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.
If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?
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.
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.
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.
Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.
Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
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.
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.
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.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.
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.
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.