If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.
Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.
How do you hold down government spending?
Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.
We can't continue to spend where there isn't any money.
I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.
At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.
For the first year I lived in New York, I never ate out. I literally just ate lentils and brown rice at home. Sometimes I'd treat myself to this half chicken from Chinatown that cost $3.50.
Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money
I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
I admit that I resent running out of research money.
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.
Starting a business from scratch and having little money in the bank focuses your mind in a way that running a multibillion-dollar business never does. It brings the key drivers of performance into sharp relief. I promise.
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.
They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
Cost reduction and cost control are by their very nature sort of anti-social activities.
