Paid Quotes - Page 28

• Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

  Ronald Reagan

  Careers, People, Poverty

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• Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

  Henry Fielding

  Reality, Men, Criticism

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• I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.

  Cesar Chavez

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.216, Penguin

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• The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

  Cesar Chavez

  Self, Cost, Wages

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• ...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

  Cesar Chavez

  Organization, Office, Trying

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• Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sight, Experience, Generations

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• He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:
  This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid.
  Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits
  This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.

  Robert Graves

  Philosophy, Drawing, Rabbits

  Robert Graves, Lucia Graves (1995). “Complete short stories”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

  Mike Tyson

  Bullying, Zoos, New York

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• I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Auburn, Enough

  "Charles Barkley's Head Fake" by David Shields, www.slate.com. November 22, 2002.

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• For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Girl, Years

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• The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Team, Believe

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• I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

  Elaine Dundy

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.130, New York Review of Books

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• Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Joy, Excess

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.192, Zondervan

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• Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Peace, Passion, Doing What You Love

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• Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

  Milton Berle

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Sports, Work, Hard

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• If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Night, Waiting

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• Might sound crazy but I just left the private plane, promoter paid 100 k and I ain't even stay the whole day.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Crazy, Might

  Song: Far From Coach

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• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  Irwin Shaw

  Sorry, Writing, Feelings

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• God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1765, Penguin

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• You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

  Sean Penn

  Trying

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• Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love You, Suffering, Trouble

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• They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Memorial Day, War

  "CNN Newsroom" with Tony Harris, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2009.

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• The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 18, 2014

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• Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?

  Rita Rudner

  Shopping, Feelings, Special

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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