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"I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards."
"A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time."
"I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread."
"Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization."
"For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become."
"Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy."
"But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget."
"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market."
"I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write."
"The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work."
"Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!"
"We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention."
"Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil."
"There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow."
"A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one."
"The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe."
"The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness."
"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I dont even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."
"Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that."
"They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in."
