Lester Bangs Quotes

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

The truth is that the dream of homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans.

In Nigeria, you have to have sports channels to watch that but not everyone can afford it. My parents couldn't afford that so you have to pay a viewing centre to watch that.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

In England, I think we get about 30,000 for maybe an FA Cup final, and there are lots of kids on the seats, which is nice - don't get me wrong - but it's a calm atmosphere.

Poverty will not be allowed to become a wall in the way of education.

I can't speak for every woman, but my birth control is covered by my insurance, and if it weren't covered, it would cost $9 a month. I don't know a lot of women who can't afford $9 a month.

I applaud anyone who comes to a football game, given the finances - it's not an easy thing to do.

Most filmmakers, if not all, come from a place of privilege, if only because of the expense.

I'm, in general, an advocate of moderate ticket prices.

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.

Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.

I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.