I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.
people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.
It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
I think I look very healthy. You've already seen what I've eaten, so I couldn't be anorexic, and I wouldn't throw up if you paid me $1,000, so I'm not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world.
Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.
I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
You can never plan what a song will do. I wrote Mr Pitiful song on a piano I paid $200 for and I definitely got my money's worth.
Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
I was the happiest and highest-paid straight woman in the business.
I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.