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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.