Paid Off Quotes

• I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teamwork, Believe, Hard Work

  "Ray Bradbury: The Uncensored Biography" by Gene Beley, (p. 284), 2006.

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• The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

  Gabby Douglas

  Hard Work, Doe, Paid

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• It's amazing seeing all the people that have helped you get to where you are. All the coaches, all the camps. Your parents, family members. I mean everybody who's invested in you. And it's really - it's really neat to see that all of their sacrifices to help you have paid off. And that now you can continue to help other people along the way.

  Mike Conley, Jr.

  Mean, Sacrifice, Helping Others

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• No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Generations, Debt

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• Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

  Allison Pearson

  Loss, Numbers, Infinite

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• We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

  James Black

  Home, Views, Perspective

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• Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Patience, Persistence, Lifting Weights

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• Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

  Kanye West

  Men, White Man, Drug

  Song: Self Conscious

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• The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

  Dave Ramsey

  Taken, Home, Bmw

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• A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

  Chanakya

  Enemy, Debt, Lasts

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• In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a 60-foot crater, or as coalition forces prefer to call it: a freedom hole.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Iraq, Feet

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• When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.

  David Bezmozgis

  Book, Character, Writing

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Jumping, Swim

  "After 15 years, Jane Fonda returns". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. May 10, 2005.

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• I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

  Jessica Seinfeld

  Jobs, College, Three

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• I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mania, Paid

  "From the archive: Ray Bradbury on life, love and Buck Rogers". Interview with John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

  Kevin Costner

  Believe, Humiliated, Knows

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• Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Bird, Feelings

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• You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

  Joel Osteen

  Perfect, House, Waiting

  "Joel Osteen: The Power of Positivity (part 2)". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Needs, Debt, Shapes

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• I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

  Matt Groening

  Believe, Reading, Writing

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• Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

  Suzanne Collins

  Cake, Katniss, Dying

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• I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

  Akshay Kumar

  Hard Work, Actors, Today

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• The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

  Katie Leclerc

  Ipads, Debt, Firsts

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• Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

  David Naughton

  Hard Work, Wells, I Realized

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• An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

  Aravind Adiga

  Effectiveness, Political, India

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician" by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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