Top 41 Pay My Dues Quotes
#2. I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
Ed Sheeran
#3. I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.
Lisa Marie Presley
#4. I vow to serve, to pay my dues
And train myself for Legal use.
I vow to bear the Surplus shame
And repay Nature for the same
I vow to listen, not to speak;
To steel myself when I am weak.
I vow to work and most of all
To serve the State if it should call.
Gemma Malley
#5. I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.
Rachael Taylor
#6. I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.
Holly Bourne
#7. I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.
Bernie Mac
#8. I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.
Alex Morrison
#9. The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.
Linda Chavez
#10. When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.
John Caudwell
#11. You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
Elisabeth Rohm
#12. Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
Alex Haley
#13. You got to pay your dues, too. So you be careful how you live and what goes in that Bank of Life. You are going to get it back ... someday. I can sure tell you that!
J. California Cooper
#14. What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
Tom Waits
#16. I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
Maya Angelou
#17. Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.
Michael Josephson
#18. My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.
Bill Shorten
#19. You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.
Lenny Bruce
#20. The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union
that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.
Bruce Rauner
#21. For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom they possessed and treated with contempt.
Martin Jacques
#22. Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.
Stephen Chbosky
#23. The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions.
Warren Farrell
#24. You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy.
Ringo Starr
#25. Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
Joanne Woodward
#26. When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.
Eric Church
#27. Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
Kevin O'Leary
#28. Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.
Brian Bell
#29. Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.
Chuck Zito
#30. In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.
Cynthia Dill
#31. When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.
Sandra Bernhard
#32. Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.
Roger Miller
#33. No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.
John Zorn
#34. One thing about excellence, it's an exclusive club. And it's only for those who really want to pay dues to the s
. My daddy told me when I was a boy: The only way you can be different from other people is to do some s
they don't want to do.
Wynton Marsalis
#35. You have to pay your dues. And what's nice, after booking a lot of new people ... I counted the other day. We're in September and we've already booked between 30 or 40 people who've never done the show before.
Scott Aukerman
#36. Posterity will pay everyone their due.
Tacitus
#37. Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.
Robert Rankin
#38. I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
Griffin Dunne
#39. The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.
James Altucher
#40. Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#41. We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
L.M. Montgomery
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