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• A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Painting, Figures, Contemporary

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• Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.

  Cory Trepanier

  Moving, Eye, Light

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• If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

  Reggie Watts

  Thinking, Attention, World

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• But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh.

  Tim Dorsey

  July, Laughing, Noon

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• From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Creating, Cinema, Attention

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

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• Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.

  Karl Hess

  Government, Promise, Doe

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• Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Pleasure, Obligation

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• The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Ordinary, Doe

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• If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rights, People, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.82, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attention, Opponents, Fancy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.135, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Needs, Need Money

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.217, Vintage

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• Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Bills, Way

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• After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Fun, Work, Men

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Hurt, Promise, Needs

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• I always tell new people in show business. I say, "Look, show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you're gonna get screwed. And when you get screwed, you will have this pile of money off to the side already." And they go, "OK, OK. OK, you ready? You ready?" "I got screwed." "You got the pile of money?" "Yeah, I'm fine." I mean, that's the way it works.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, People, Looks

  "Jay Leno on leaving 'The Tonight Show'". Interview with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2014.

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• Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

  Stephen King

  Curious

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Care, Mortgage, Wealth

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.11

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• Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

  George Washington

  Mean, Army, Soldier

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.441

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• If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

  Warren Buffett

  Want, Great Men, Wells

  Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting at Omaha, Nebraska, May 01, 2004.

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• We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

  John F. Kerry

  Simple, People, Attention

  "Democrats in Denial About Unpopular Policies" by Rich Lowry, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Cutting, College

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly.

  Barack Obama

  War, Sacrifice, Defense

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Art, Expression, Doe

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• A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.

  Will Rogers

  Baby, Attention, Noise

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• It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Identity, Doe

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.50, Vintage

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