Dues Quotes

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

I'm a believer in paying your dues.

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.