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I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

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

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.