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“You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.”

People Years Looks Kids Half Paid Deeper Russia Feds Cattle Moscow Half A Year

Author:Alexander Lebed

“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.”

People Years Bigs Film Known Careers Successful Fine Exciting Paid Host Respectable Rubbish Julia American Film

Author:Joely Richardson

“The fact is, there are a couple of years he may not have paid any taxes. Maybe he's concerned about that. But if it's going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple of months to explain it.”

Ifs Needs Years May Facts Months Couple Republican Taxes Concerned Paid

Author:Joe Scarborough

“Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.”

Years Wells Littles Has Beens Important Moments Asks Attention Leader Style Female Paid Critical Right Questions Woman Leader Critical Moments Leadership Style

Author:Charlotte Bunch

“You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.”

Ifs Years Facts Fall Gains Advantage Empty Paid Twenties Errors Careful Crafts Recalls Coins Boast Elders Purses Resent Artisans Years Of Experience Redundancy

Author:Trevanian

“I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.”

Years Would Be Fun Deals Attention Years Ago Paid Tables Eight

Author:Michael Tolkin

“About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends.”

Years Simple Car Models Paid Faults Lists Faithful Accuracy Simple Living Close Friends Through The Years

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.”

Way Years Next Taxes Tough Paid Asking Fellows Luxury Broke Inheritance Next Year Sales Tax Inheritance Tax

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“If you paid your mortgage off, it means you probably did not manage your funds efficiently over the years.”

Ifs Years Mean Paid Manage Fund Mortgage

Author:David Lereah

“I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.”

Should Trying Years I Can Guy Paper Draws Paid University Comic Ads Campus Cartoonist Freshman Comic Strips Funny Guy Freshman Year

Author:Dan Povenmire

“Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.”

Years Term White Class Paid Slave Bounds Miserable Servant Wages Laborers

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.”

Years Humans Has Beens Father Nations Generations Blood Civilization Years Ago Paid Granted Dawn Our Father Price Human Civilization

Author:Menachem Begin

“The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.”

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Years Firsts Book Soul Father Individual Path Generations Sacrifice Mankind Danger Eternal Relation Paid Ill Teeth Guilty Recognition Merit Infidelity Best Year Encyclopedia

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.”

Years Used Race Attention Paid Used To Be Rhythm Rhythm And Blues

Author:Ray Charles

“It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.”

Years Two Sides Economic Republican Taxes Hundred Economics Paid Bills Clinton Raised Debt Twelve Expansion National Debt Supply Side Economics

Book:Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative

Source: Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative

“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.”

“On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.”

Years Firsts Soul Would Be Mother Dies Cases Thirds Paid Debt Disaster Settling Score Misfortunes New Year Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.”

Years Has Beens Play Used Enjoy Player Football Wind Picks Paid Load Very Happy Benches

Author:Kevin Kilbane

“My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'”

Years Firsts Two Shows Jobs Acting Week College First Time Paid Actresses Festivals Juniors Two Weeks Julius Utah Sophomore Junior Year Sophomore Year Calpurnia

Author:Katy Mixon

“advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day as I do, a nickel in the hand is more useful than the same nickel next year. What do I know about next year? I've never been there. I don't know any one who has.”

Knows Years Stills Hands Next Future Mouths Paid Delusion Day To Day Next Year Nickels

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.”

Ifs World Writing Trying Years Said Book Done Feelings Nice Written Ultimate Paid Forgotten Generous Being Nice They Said Obliged Request Work Done

Author:Derek Sivers

“The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.”

“I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.”

Years War Generations Sick Paid Fifty My Generation

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“In the years that Ive seen concerts, when Ive paid to see somebody I want to see, there would be a certain amount of songs Id want to hear. So whether its stuff I want to play every night or not - or stuff Ive been playing for years or stuff you get tired of playing - you have to play what people pay for and make it fair for them.”

People Want Years Play Would Be Night Certain Song Stuff Pay Amount Fairs Paid Tired Concerts Every Night

Author:Toby Keith

“About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.”

Feels Years Return Paid Gentleman Now And Then Entitled Fourteen

Book:Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue

Source: Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue

“People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.”

People Want Years Wells Kids Five Six Deserve Paid Treated Rubbish Lottery Apprenticeship

Author:Daley Thompson

“I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.”

Years Firsts Facts Four Majors Paid Lifetime Conservative Debt Billions Reform Budgets Welfare Balanced Entitlement Paid Off

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don't feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I'm not going to play the game just because of money.”

Ifs Feels Years Stills I Can Play Happens Care Games Enjoy Paid Extras

Author:Michael Jordan

“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”

Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition

“As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.”

Men Should Years Long White Millions Produce Paid Celebrate Indian Decent Savior Celebration White Man Turkeys Slaughter Deliverance

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”

Source: Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.”

Years Wells Religion Difficult Women Cutting Sea Influence Land Periods Thousand Paid Seven Extremes Miles Boundaries Significance Reverence Goddess Longevity Thousand Years Immensity Expanse

Author:Merlin Stone

“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”

“In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.”

Years Values Taxes Six Paid Property Lifetime Despite Owners Farmers Small Business Business Owners Small Business Owners

Author:Doc Hastings

“If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.”

Ifs Should Years Doe Today Earth Mother Next Millions Planets Cost Paid Surprise Atmosphere Global Warming Pollution Shells Our Planet Next Year Mother Nature Dump Bailouts

Author:Al Gore

“Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful.”

“He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.”

Years Lasts Talking Taxes Paid Barack Faster Deficit Reduction Bragging

Author:Barack Obama

“I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.”

“When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"”

Years Seeing Pages Paid Ebay

Author:Mike Royer

“If you want to find what God put you here to do, ask yourself three questions. First question: What comes easy to you but harder to other people? The second question is: What would you do for years and never have to get paid for it? Third, ask yourself: How can you be of service?”

People Ifs Want Years Firsts Three Asks Easy Thirds Harder Paid

Author:Farrah Gray

“"Yeah, well, if you eat red meat, it stays in your colon for fifteen years!" Good! I paid for it; I want it in my ass, okay? I want them to find a meat sweater from my esophagus to my asshole when they open me up in the end! "This guy's covered in meat! He's Meat-Man! He's Meat-Tracheotomy-Man!"”

Ifs Men Want Years Wells Ends Humor Funny Guy Red Okay Paid Yeah Ass Meat Covered Fifteen This Guy Sweaters Fifteen Years Red Meat

Author:Denis Leary

“Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.”

Way Years Moral Study Letters Paid Fruit Theology Temptation Compliment Ripe Asceticism Supposing Supposing That Ripe Fruit

Book:The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

Source: The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

“You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.”

Years Pay Taxes Paid Income Pockets Uncles No Money Phantoms Uncle Sam

Author:Scott Walker

“If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.”

Ifs Years Sports Thousand Paid Dollars Thirty

Author:Ted Williams

“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Years Would Be Kids Pay Break Four Taxes Married Paid Rewards Extras Apartment Tangible Mortgage Hybrid Tax Breaks Paid Off

Author:Bill Burr

“It isn't called TV money for nothing. There was a time where I paid my rent by doing theater for years, and I was able to buy groceries and pay my electric bill. I considered myself to be making a living as an actor. This kind of money that we make is a whole other level, of course. But it really is simply the cherry on top of a job and a role that I adore.”

Years Kind Whole Able Jobs Courses Actors Levels Pay Roles Tvs Paid Theater Bills Electric Adore Groceries Cherries Making A Living

Author:Jim Parsons

“The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.”

World Years Today Term One Thing Resources Years Ago Paid Managers Stewards Today's World

Author:Tom Peters

“High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.”

People Years School Sleep College Band Musician High School Paid Punk Vans Basements Hardcore Sleeping In Formative Years

Author:Steve Aoki