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Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once.

Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.