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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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• There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

  Al Yankovic

  Cutting, Guy, Library

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.

  Angus Young

  Men, Purple, Zeppelins

  "Angus Young of AC/DC Opens Up in His First Guitar World Interview from 1984". Interview with Steven Rosen, www.guitarworld.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Money, Knows, Lots Of Money

  "Eminem moons MTV; P. Diddy a fashion winner; 'ER' actress 'too old'". www.sfgate.com. June 8, 2004.

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• As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

  Helen Fisher

  Mean, Unhappy, Gains

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• Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

  John Oliver

  Fans, Lending, Mets

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• Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

  Howard Rheingold

  People, Authenticity, Craigslist

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• Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Jobs, Shoes, People

  "Are jobs obsolete?". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.

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• The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Giving, Tasks, Needs

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• Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Integrity, Men, Our World

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.99, Zed Books

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• You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don’t you think? And don’t you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Fighting, Pride, Thinking

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Insane, Looks, Monkeys

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings”, p.22, Bantam Classics

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• We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

  Jennifer Egan

  Lying, Writing, Bullshit

  Jennifer Egan (2009). “Look at Me: A Novel”, p.98, Anchor

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• If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Long, Waiting, Want

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Book, Years, Attention

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.197, Bantam

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• galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. she looked at him steadily. "where have you been? why did you do this to me?" and she gave dean a dirty look; she knew the score. dean paid absolutely no attention; what he wanted now was food; he asked jane if there was anything. the confusion began right there.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dirty, Hair

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• He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.

  Marguerite Duras

  Men, Mind, Dying

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• I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Army, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.277

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• There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Silence, Moral, Injustice

  Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

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• In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

  Terry Pratchett

  Money, Philosopher, Founders

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• There will be killing till the score is paid.

  Homer

  Killing, Score

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.411, Macmillan

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• Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

  Peter Ustinov

  Dream, Growing, Criminal Mind

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