"I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous."
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"Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal."
"There will be killing till the score is paid."
"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it."
"Ambition's debt is paid."
"Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head"
"I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay."
"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
"The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately."
"I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry."
"When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me."
"people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them"
"I've always showed up. If I got paid."
"For hostile word let hostile word be paid."
"All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself."
"You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours."
"It's never paid to bet against America."
"When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do."
"I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible."