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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
I believe men and women should be afforded the same opportunities.
Bond has afforded me a great personal passport, which I use for UNICEF.
My education, drive, and commitment have afforded me every opportunity I have ever sought.
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.
Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.
Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.
Being speaker has afforded me a unique opportunity to serve parliament, for which I am immensely grateful.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks.
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.
It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.
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.
Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege at that.
Basketball is a beautiful game and it's afforded all of us in this profession so many things. To give back any time we can is gratifying.
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.
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.
I have carried the burden of being a role model for some time. And that's great. The body of work I've done has afforded me that opportunity.
The moment I decided to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, there are protections that are afforded to me.
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.
When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that impracticality.
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.
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.
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.
Starting as a few bands of hunter-gatherers, humanity expanded the food resources afforded by the land a thousandfold through the development of agriculture.
To this day, I still get people calling me Aunt Becky, and I'm not offended by that at all. 'Full House' has afforded me wonderful opportunities in my career.
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.
Trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, and we're not even being afforded the opportunity to tell our own stories. I feel that is problematic.
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.
The journey of making 'Hidden Figures' has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.
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.
The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.
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.
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.
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.
If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it.
If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to freely exercise your religion.
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.
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.
To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.