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"The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else."
"One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything."
"Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try."
"I never pay a fortune for clothes."
"Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?"
"I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium."
"There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers"
"Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief."
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"
"We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off."
"Death pays all debts."
"To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity."
"The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill."
"Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them."
"I would go to these 'Supernatural' conventions because, well, one, it's like going to your own version of Disneyland. You're adored for an hour or whatever, and then you walk out and you're nobody again, but, boy, when you're there, it must be what it's like to be Brad Pitt all day, you know? You're the best thing going. And it pays pretty well, too! But I was concurrently loved and hated by everybody, because the suspension of disbelief is, uh, pretty high among 'Supernatural' fans."
"So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay."
