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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
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"We're going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up."

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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
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"We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states."

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Toby Young Journalist
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"I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment."

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Troy King Politician
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"It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it."

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Scott Simon Journalist
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"It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same."

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Sienna Miller Actress
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"It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!"

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan."

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Robbie Williams Singer, Songwriter
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"As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them."

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"I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now."

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Stendhal Novelist
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"I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself."

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