I had a really good childhood up until I was nine then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days old people sitting in the hot sun when you see these poor people you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine Oscar Moore died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were after all badly affected. For years afterwards at least ten years I kept getting these dreams in which I had to crawl through ruined houses along passages I could hardly get through.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980 and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

Being in the design industry I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

Right now it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

When I was growing up my mother would say 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business in New York City in the '50s that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

I did not think that I was angry but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age or in times of disability to insure financial income for their families.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every age in the world have passed through this fiery persecution.