Paying Quotes
1106 Paying quotes by 904 unique authors
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I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.
— Rufus Wainwright
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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to…
— Lech Walesa
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which…
— Josiah Warren
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
— J C Watts
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Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist…
— J C Watts
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I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff…
— Bryan White
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
— Oscar Wilde
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
— Rainn Wilson
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If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great…
— Tucker Max
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The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product.…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.
— Mark Helprin
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He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that…
— Halldór Laxness
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself…
— Marcel Proust
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is…
— Susan Sontag
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The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying…
— Tom Robbins
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The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
— Shirley Hazzard
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The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
— Robert Jordan
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Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not…
— Christopher Paolini
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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