“I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.” FightingFatherHusbandPaidComplainingMy HusbandClose FriendsOligarchyUkrainian Author:Yulia Tymoshenko
“I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.” IfsWaySaidUseWantedUsedFightingNamesMy OwnPayEuropePaidLots Of MoneyThey SaidAsiaMickey Author:Mickey Rourke
“I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.” StillsHardFightingPerfectRocksNeededCostPaidBottomPushingBreakthroughBreakdown Author:Mariah Carey
“Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.” YearsRealMightChoicesFightingSleepWalksStruggleTakenTroublePaidPraiseSacredAbundanceGatesWombDoorwaysOur ChoicesSquad Author:Marge Piercy
“Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.” PeopleWantYearsCountryTogetherFightingPresidentIssuesCollegeHigherPaidClintonUniversityMedicalGuaranteesProposalDiscussingHigher EducationTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat, families are struggling, not enough new jobs, or new businesses are being created, and it's important that we all try to figure out what we're going to do, and that's what I've done my entire life, fighting for a higher minimum wage, or family leave, now paid family leave which I believe in, equal pay for equal work.” KnowsTryingBelieveImportantDoneEnoughFeelingsJobsFightingI BelievePayStruggleFiguresHigherEqualPaidI Believe InFlatsMinimumWagesRecessionsMinimum WageNew JobEqual PayNew BusinessGreat Recession Author:Hillary Clinton
“I would say one thing people need to do - and his is how Roosevelt's New Deal began - let us go back to cities and states where we can, build emblematic progressive reforms, like the Fight for 15 minimum wage, paid sick leave, things that improve the conditions of people's lives and that drive them into a national message.” PeopleNeedsStatesFightingDealsCitiesOne ThingConditionsMessagesSickPaidReformProgressiveMinimumMinimum WageNew DealSick Leave Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“The freedom-hating gun-grabbers do not care about reducing crime or saving lives, or they wouldn't be fighting for more gun-free zones where the most innocent lives are always slaughtered. Those squawking the loudest for banning guns from we the people will not get rid of their we-the-people tax-dollar-paid armed security guards.” PeopleCareHateFightingSecurityCrimeTaxesGunPaidDollarsInnocentSavingZoneReducingSave A LifeTax DollarsSecurity GuardsInnocent Life Author:Ted Nugent
“I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.” ThinkingWayTwoFightingLanguageTermDealsPaidClubsLabelsInventingLabeling Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.” MenWellsEnoughAmericaFightingNationsCausesLossSacrificeReturnGratitudeMen And WomenUltimatePaidBlessedSoldierDebtBattlefieldsGreat NationsMilitary ServiceDebt Of Gratitude Author:Allen Boyd
“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?” ThinkingEndsFightingPayPrideNeededPaid Book:The Club Dumas: A Novel Source: The Club Dumas: A Novel
“My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingBookWholeLyingNightFightingCareersKnow HowHusbandDecidedPaidCaughtDivorceBitterImpulseOddAwakeFancySongwritingPantsAttorneyAwake At NightHomicidal Author:Sue Grafton
“If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues” IfsMadeSelfSuccessFightingSportsAchieveTalentSucceedAchievementPaidPerseveranceDuesFighterPersistenceAccomplishmentBoxingBeing SuccessfulSuccess In LifeInspirational SportsKey To SuccessRoad To SuccessRecipe For SuccessBoxersSelf TransformationSelf MadeHard Work Pays OffSelf-satisfactionSelf GlorificationLifetime Achievement Author:Sugar Ray Leonard
“The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight... Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!” MadeFightingCausesTaxesPaidHip HopRapSweatIrs Author:Ludacris