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"If you really care about content, you should pay for it."
"When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart."
"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."
"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."
"It's a big pay off when I see a woman wearing my stuff. It's really gratifying."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing."
"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."
"They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance."
"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."
"I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself."