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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

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.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.