"Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman."
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"Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde."
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"I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material."
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"It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway."
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"Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled."
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"Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment."
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"I didn't pay my taxes for years."
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"Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece."
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"Somebodys paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the corporations that are rebuilding it. Theyre getting paid by the American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country, and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer to U.S. corporations."
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"I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?"
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"What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money."
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"My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs."
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"Gay people getting married? Next, they'll be allowed to vote and pay taxes."
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"The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills."
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"If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself."
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"Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render."
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"My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against."
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"Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages."
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"There are people out there who pay their hard earned money to see a good show and people who work 9 to 5 and they saved their money and they want to see the best show possible."
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"It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see."
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