Top 100 Doesn T Pay Quotes
#1. G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.
Elizabeth Warren
#2. She was being nice, and Oscar was always reminding me that most people are fundamentally decent and that it doesn't pay to think badly of them.
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
#3. The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
Ken Kesey
#4. If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.
James Hansen
#5. Got any stock tips?" I couldn't help but ask. "The government doesn't pay shit for
salary.
Jeaniene Frost
#6. Sell. Don't apologize for it and don't be afraid to beg with a positive, up-beat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you've earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn't pay the rent.
Thom Gimbel
#7. The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.
Jack Canfield
#9. Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.
Tom Douglas
#10. I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Robert Duvall
#11. One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
#12. Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.
Alex Tabarrok
#13. Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.
Kate Christensen
#15. Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
Adam Carolla
#16. The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
Taye Diggs
#17. I nearly said something, but then thought better of it. It doesn't pay to publicly point out the failings of the person providing your paycheck.
Donald G. Firesmith
#18. Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
Harrison Ford
#19. Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.
Ted Nicholas
#21. I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
Edie Campbell
#23. This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.
Henry Ford
#24. If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.
Michael Moore
#25. With interest rates rising, gold doesn't pay an interest rate, but every other currency - it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold.
Lloyd Blankfein
#26. It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.
Cory Monteith
#27. In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.
Frederick Lenz
#28. People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.
Clayton Christensen
#29. They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.
Sharron Angle
#30. A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.
Will Rogers
#31. Last time MCB was out here was when a hard rain revealed one of their experiments. A deer was exposed to it and grew tentacles instead of antlers. Tentacle deer ... The Army doesn't pay me enough to deal with that kind of shit.
Larry Correia
#32. I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.
Stacy Keach
#33. The second rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long. The
Brian Tracy
#34. Lounging and larking doesn't pay," observed Jo, shaking her head. "I'm tired of it and mean to go to work at something right off.
Louisa May Alcott
#35. You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.
Ronald Reagan
#36. I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
Carl Lewis
#37. They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.
Joyce Rachelle
#38. You can't get by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives.
Richard Doetsch
#39. Have a relationship with Jesus and make it your top priority. I've also learned that it doesn't pay to stress and worry, just go where God leads you.
Sara Evans
#40. It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.
Alice Rivlin
#41. I can't micromanage what anybody pays or doesn't pay. But the concept that half of the public isn't involved with the income-tax system is somewhat odd and I'm not saying how much people should do, but we should all be part of the system.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
#42. Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
F. Murray Abraham
#43. Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.
Lori Lesko
#44. I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.
Ellen Kushner
#45. It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.
Josh Lieb
#46. The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
Aleister Crowley
#47. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
#48. Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
Zinedine Zidane
#49. Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#50. Poetry doesn't pay. But I need it. And so do you.
Cory Basil
#51. The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
Laurence J. Peter
#52. You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.
John Barrow
#53. Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
Jim Butcher
#54. I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.
Stanley R. Jaffe
#55. Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
Robert Glasper
#56. Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.
H.L. Mencken
#57. I love the stage, but it doesn't pay the mortgage.
David Harewood
#58. I live my life in pursuit of truth and beauty. It doesn't pay very well.
Noah Haidle
#59. Boy, you resolve not to go down the path of a Dark Lord and the universe starts messing with you the instant the Hat comes off your head. Some days it just doesn't pay to fight destiny. Maybe I'll wait until tomorrow to start on my resolution to not be a Dark Lord.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#60. Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.
Laura Penny
#61. Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.
Douglas Rushkoff
#62. Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
Robert A. Heinlein
#64. My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.
Alan King
#65. You know nothing of me." Through clenched teeth. "Nothing. You've fucked me, that's all. Well, that's a crowded hole you're in, darling. And us humans, we're a lying, dissembling bunch, remember. Doesn't pay to trust us between the sheets any more than anywhere else.
Richard K. Morgan
#66. It really doesn't pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it's unlikely they will delight you now. I
Bill Bryson
#67. Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?
Phil Daniels
#68. It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.
Frederick Lenz
#69. One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.
G. Gordon Liddy
#70. Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it.
Jay Crownover
#71. Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth.
Abhijit Naskar
#72. War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.
Dick Motta
#73. I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
Kabir Bedi
#74. I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me.
Emmylou Harris
#75. There are queer things, evil things, out yonder, and there are bones of white men bleaching in the sun who have sought to know too much. Curiosity doesn't pay yonder.
("The Great White Moth")
Frederick Merrick White
#76. I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.
Kevin O'Leary
#77. It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.
Anthony Liccione
#78. I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
Kabir Bedi
#79. If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.
Brian Tracy
#80. They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do.
Leonard Horn
#81. When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.
Kent Beck
#82. It doesn't pay the bills. And if I'm not going to do what my mother and Millicent want, I better be able to pay my own way. Because it's just a matter of time before they cut me off financially.
April White
#83. It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense.
Debra Doyle
#84. Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.
Tupac Shakur
#85. I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.
John Green
#86. It took me years and cost me countless thousands of dollars in lost business before I finally learned that it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.
Dale Carnegie
#87. The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things,
John Medina
#88. When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
Terry Goodkind
#89. I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.
Henny Youngman
#90. Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go. To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.
Charlie Weis
#91. If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.
John C. Maxwell
#92. ...It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.
Biz Stone
#93. It doesn't pay to try, all the smart girls know why.
Ronnie Spector
#94. Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
Jim Butcher
#95. It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard
#96. I write for love, but love doesn't pay the bills.
Stephen King
#97. All those times you watched me kill Jabba the Hutt, and you never learned from his example. It doesn't pay to jerk me around.
Claudia Gray
#98. Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.
Mary Lee Settle
#99. Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, I'm here, pay attention to me
Harvey Milk
#100. My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.
Herschel Walker
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