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• After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

  Malcolm X

  Slave Labor, Years, African American

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• If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

  George Orwell

  Character, Class, Ordinary

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

  Dick Gregory

  Respect, Confused, Rights

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• I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.

  Prabal Gurung

  Glasses, Guy, Roles

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

  Lillian Hellman

  Russia, Class, America

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• I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

  Pamela Anderson

  School, Thinking, Volunteer

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• Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

  Mark Duplass

  Thinking, Humanity, Charming

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

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• There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Jobs, People, Feelings

  "Danny Bonaduce on Anti-War Jane Fonda". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

  George Carlin

  Library, Adults, Bookstores

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• And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Moon, Men, Fire

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• Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Kids, Simple, Government

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• I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  House, Agents, Goes On

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• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  Ed Rollins

  Politician, Clinton, Smarter

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• I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college. When I hear some of that, I think that is not who I am, he doesn't know me or what I teach. I always talk about God rewards obedience. When you follow His way, the Bible says that His blessings will chase you down and overtake you.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• ...making profits is important because it keeps all our people in jobs and, you know, it keeps what we - what we've created going, but, you know, what we're - what I get my - what I'm proud about doing is creating companies which we're really proud of, you know, which we can really be proud of and a byproduct of that hopefully will be that they'll be profitable and be able to pay the bills.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Business, Creating

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• Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

  Seth Godin

  Phones, People, Marketing

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

  James Bovard

  Taken, Two, Lunch

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• You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils
  as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding
  hundred dollar bills.

  Herb Caen

  Rams, Dollar Bills, Dollars

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• A shop bought card saying Get Well Soon. Didn't seem to fit the bill. This hand made card hopes that pretty soon... ...You'll be galloping up that hill.

  John Walter Bratton

  Get Well Soon, Hands, Cards

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• Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

  Ezra Stiles

  Thinking, Law, Branches

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• The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Government, Important, Quality

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• I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given $60 million to make a film, you'd better know who your target audience is. That's who's going to pay back the bills you run up.

  Michael Bay

  Running, Talking, Target Audience

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• To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to pay rents, taxes, bills, etc., on the calends, and to defer paying them to the “Greek Calends” was virtually to repudiate them. (See NEVER.)

  E. Cobham Brewer

  Greek, Pay, Months

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• With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

  Eric Massa

  Running, House, Hawaii

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