It’s too expensive to eat healthy. You ever go to Whole Foods? A carrot is, like, seven dollars. McDonald’s got double cheeseburgers for a dollar.
When you’re the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that’s half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does – or can.
The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines – that puts women’s health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don’t focus.
Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money,’ but they changed it to ‘alimony.’ It’s ripping your heart out through your wallet.
Supplying fuel for a Mars expedition from the lunar surface is often suggested, but it’s hard to make it pay off – Moon bases are expensive, and just buying more rockets to launch fuel from Earth is relatively cheap.
The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It’s so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.
I’ve lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I’m happier because of it.
I think it’s evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.
When I came to Liverpool, in a €20 million transfer, I was expensive.
I received a lot from tennis, so it’s good to help others because it’s very difficult. Many talented kids get lost because they don’t have the money. Tennis is an expensive sport in Romania.
Wars are expensive and dangerous. They’re not political winners.
Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you’re buying an expensive trench coat, and it’s lined in something cheap, it doesn’t feel as nice.
In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.
Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.
I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.
Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to ‘Palo Alto,’ it was important for me that the kids didn’t look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I’m the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I’ll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can’t make fuel out of it.
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it’s by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.
The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.
I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It’s something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was my spectacular mid-life crisis. Some people buy expensive cars, and I wrote a novel.
It’s not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don’t mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we’re not sure that it does.
Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.
My mom was not able to buy us the expensive Air Jordans, so if I wanted something that was a little bit nicer, my brother and I, we had to go earn money for it.
I didn’t get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.
A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently – business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don’t have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Everything is very expensive in Iceland, so I got some things done in India in the two months I was here. I visited the dentist, the optician, the tailor. When I go home, I’ll have a new smile, a new wardrobe, and spectacles.
If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
I was never a big fashion person, and so I’m sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren’t that expensive and made sense at the time. But I’m sure that I look back and say, ‘What was I thinking?’ My adolescence was more in the ’80s, and that’s more my cross to bear.
While I’m a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it’s the real universe that calls to me.
Studies have found that preparing your own food is usually healthier and less expensive than buying fast food. But most people just don’t have the time.
Movies are an expensive business.
I don’t like to use expensive materials. I take care to make costs reasonable. It’s very similar to the way I make clothes.
Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as ‘us and them,’ with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive.
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
‘Mars et Avril’ is a science fiction film. It’s set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it’s expensive, it’s set in the future, and it’s got tons of visual effects, and it’s shot on green screen.
All that chatter you hear from yuppie parents at the playground about how expensive it is to ‘do’ bathrooms? It’s all true. Every word, and worse.
It was the first fight I had with my father. My father basically said, why are you going to business school? You’re just going to get married and have kids and you won’t use your degree. And it’s expensive. We had a knockdown, drag-out fight, which was great. Yeah. In the driveway. My father said, ‘You’re on your own.’
And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it’s very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.
The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images… and they were very expensive.
As America is growing older, there are more and more families caring for older parents and grandparents, and it’s extremely expensive.
I’ve often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don’t see them going abroad. It’s so expensive to travel.
In Japan, the more expensive a restaurant is, the larger the plates and the smaller the portions. The cheaper a restaurant is, the smaller the plates and the larger the portions.
