I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
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.
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are.
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.
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.
Success is always available to anyone who is willing to pay its affordable price. Stop making excuses.
Tomorrow is not the best time to start your dream. You have already missed yesterday and cannot afford to miss today too.
The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
We really can’t afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in.
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
What's more difficult than knowing there's an effective treatment for your children, but you can't afford to offer it to them because it's not covered by insurance?
Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
