"She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for."
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"I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things."
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"I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch."
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"If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals."
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"If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD."
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"My father hauled boxes so I could get an education and earn enough money to pay someone to make me lift weights."
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"Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master."
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"I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that."
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"You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else."
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"The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit."
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"You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack."
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"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift."
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"Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now."
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"American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally."
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"Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay."
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"It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts."
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"Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits."
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"I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent."
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"Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom."
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"I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does."
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