Afford Quotes

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera

Cannot, Waste, Idleness

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.
Vivienne Westwood

Money, Clothes, Defending

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.
Diablo Cody

Person, Industry, Writers

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
Elton John

Legal, Mean, Write

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.
Lester Bangs

Mean, America, Start

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
Francis Ford Coppola

Work, Try, Filmmakers

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
Sylvester Stallone

Family, Yourself, Become

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.
Rachel McAdams

Love, Character, Christian

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
William Hague

Marriage, Country, Sense

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
George Soros

Work, Good, Public

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
Arthur Erickson

Human, May, Cannot

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.
Benjamin Carson

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
Benjamin Carson

Success, Education, Made

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
Freeman Dyson

Power, Government, Technology

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz

Time, Money, Cannot

I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.
Spike Lee

School, Blessed, Children

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.
Spike Lee

Play, Loved, Playing

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann

Best, Fool, Lose

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
Vera Wang

Women, Important, Bit

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
Andrew Cuomo

Respect, Reality, State

We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.
Emeril Lagasse

Show, Instant, Replay

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
Twyla Tharp

Good, Women, Today

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman

Work, Car, Live

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
Tom Petty

Funny, Music, Why

I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.
Ellie Goulding

Time, Home, Future

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
Erica Jong

Women, Rich, Poor

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.
Paula Deen

Friends, Wine, Worry

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
James Taylor

Forward, Able, Looking

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
Iain Duncan Smith

Work, Morning, Children

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.'
Diane Kruger

Work, Anymore, Parts

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