#afforded

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

#afforded #being #i #kind #life

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

#able #afforded #been #circumstances #cover

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#been #follow #forward-looking #generous #government

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. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#assumed #critical #done #felt #feminism

But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks. ↗

— Tim Scott

#folks #life #majority #me #my life

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

#actual #afforded #always #beloved #careful

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

#could #fact #family #family structure #financially

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

#any #court #eliminate #fought #legislatures

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. ↗

— Simone Weil

#art #fault #friendship #gratuitous #great

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

#admiring #afforded #allow #also #beauty