When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
To a certain extent, I have to be the president's bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, 'No, we don't have enough money for that.' That is not a very popular thing to do in Washington.
I was super-obsessed with the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favorite. They had a tour in 2008, and my home girls went, but I didn't have the money to go!
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation.
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.
I don't have the resources to maintain luxury cars, though I love them.
A low budget is uncomfortable.
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
I couldn't afford [buying Marvel]. I hope I have enough money for dinner tonight!
My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.
The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have.
I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.
Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.
Teams with limited budgets will always find times tough and results won't always go your way.
No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.
I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.
Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't have any money.
