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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once.

Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.