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• Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

  Jesse Ventura

  People, Tuition, Pay

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.29, Villard

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• I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Mistake, Sleep, Night

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2006.

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• I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Plot, Demise, Way

  "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

  Lech Walesa

  Freedom, Liberty, Priceless

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• I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

  Alice Walker

  Country, Ghetto, Thinking

  "A long walk to freedom" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

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• I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

  Murray Walker

  People, Confusing, Wish

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• Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

  Vera Wang

  Inspirational, Fashion, Life Changing

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• You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fire, Police, Occupy Movement

  "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Kids, Ideas, Looks

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.215, Metropolitan Books

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• Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

  Dionne Warwick

  Song, Artist, Cds

  "Big Radio’s Attacks on Me Aren’t Surprising" by Dionne Warwick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2009.

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• Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

  George Washington

  Motivational, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

  J. C. Watts

  Country, Jobs, Talking

  "Gingrich Picks Up Endorsement From J.C. Watts". "Hannity" with Mark Steyn, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2011.

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• I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.

  Jacki Weaver

  Baby, Children, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Truth, Years

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• I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

  Florence Welch

  Responsibility, Giving, Fans

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• I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

  Kanye West

  Song, Knows

  Song: Dilated People

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• An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

  James Whistler

  Tattoo, Art, Creativity

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• Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Mediocrity, Tribute

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• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  A. N. Wilson

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Success, Jobs

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• Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

  Naomi Wolf

  Entrepreneur, Magazines, Tabloids

  "How chick-flicks are breaking the conventions of wedded bliss" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

  Jim Woodring

  Drawing, People, Special

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

  Tiger Woods

  Business, Golf, Doing What You Love

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• I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

  Ron Wyden

  America, Broken, Silence

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