"Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent."
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"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."
"Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing."
"I pay these niggas with a reality check."
"The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it"
"A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else."
"A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it."
"Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person."
"I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks."
"Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere."
"The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life."
"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
"They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it."
"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."
"Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me."
"This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money."
"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."
"Pioneering don't pay."
"Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least."
"I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin."