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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight... Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.

I'm getting paid to tour and travel and I don't have to work a shitty job. And it's weird because you like start getting pissed off about that.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.

There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it.

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

You can never plan what a song will do. I wrote Mr Pitiful song on a piano I paid $200 for and I definitely got my money's worth.

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

I do a job. I get paid. I go home.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.

I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.

We don't get paid to cheer lead for Donald Trump. We're just paid to cover him.

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.

In fact, there's no way that banks can be paid everything that they're owed.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

Frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president.

I have paid taxes every year, a lot of taxes.