Paying Quotes

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

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.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

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 in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.