Top 100 Quotes About Dues
#1. At I Am My Brother's Keeper, there were no dues, no drives, no singles nights. Membership grew the old-fashioned way: a desperate need for God.
Mitch Albom
#2. 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
#3. Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.
John McCain
#4. 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
#5. The village to sell (saving your presence) four pigs, and between dues and cribbings they got out of me little less than the worth of them. As
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#6. I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.
Leif Garrett
#7. I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.
Valerie June
#8. Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
Kevin O'Leary
#9. The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.
Helen Lawrenson
#10. Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
Howard Rheingold
#11. 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
#12. I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
Victoria Pratt
#13. I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.
Silas Weir Mitchell
#14. When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in zero point five seconds.
Jen Lancaster
#16. Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell
#17. 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
#18. Your dues don't have to be paid all at once, but they do have to be paid in full.
Bryan Way
#19. I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
Ed Sheeran
#20. Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#21. You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.
Slash
#22. Money was a problem. Money was always a problem no matter how many bones he crushed or how much blood he let or dues he paid. The fucking rent was always due.
Laird Barron
#23. 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
#24. How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#25. In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.
John Montgomery Ward
#26. You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
Richard Pryor
#27. If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#28. 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
#29. In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.
Cynthia Dill
#30. All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing
Carl Henegan
#31. Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.
Lupe Fiasco
#32. Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? ... John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it ... We would have been failures if had to do the same things we did.
Jim Clyburn
#33. Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek
Thy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek
With sympathetic care their arms around the creep,
For oh they can not bear to see their father weep
W.S. Gilbert
#34. 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
#35. Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.
Roger Miller
#36. I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
Mike Tyson
#37. You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy.
Ringo Starr
#38. When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
Jim Cooper
#39. The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.
Frank Gaffney
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing ... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.
Vladimir Nabokov
#44. I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
David Quammen
#45. When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.
Anthony Bourdain
#46. The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.
Vanna Bonta
#47. 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
#48. I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.
Amanda Bynes
#49. Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer ... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers ...
Big K.R.I.T.
#50. Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and you'll gift yourself abundantly.
Michelle Geaney
#51. You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.
Don McLean
#52. People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.
Larry Holmes
#53. I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
Griffin Dunne
#54. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#55. I'm a believer in paying your dues.
Dana Fox
#56. 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
#57. Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#58. 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
#59. Effort for the sake of effort is as foolish a tradition as paying dues. How much better is hard work when it's amplified by a lever? Platforms teach us skills and allow us to focus on being great, rather than reinventing wheels or repeating ourselves.
Shane Snow
#60. I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.
Ronnie Van Zant
#61. People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
Richard Donner
#62. Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.
Mark Vonnegut
#63. 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
#64. I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.
Dana Fox
#65. 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
#66. When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
Albert Shanker
#67. I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.
Alex Morrison
#68. The real University ... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues ... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
Robert M. Pirsig
#69. After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
#70. 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
#71. Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
Taylor Kitsch
#72. The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.
Neal A. Maxwell
#73. 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
#74. And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his ...
Anne Fortier
#75. The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#76. I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.
Emily Mortimer
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
Alex Haley
#80. 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
#81. In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#82. Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
James Lee Burke
#83. 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
#85. I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end. I don't understand young actors who get off the turnip truck and land in Hollywood and get a great job. They do not realize how fortunate they are.
Enrico Colantoni
#86. Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks.
Thom S. Rainer
#87. Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.
Rose Schneiderman
#88. .. how history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.
Arundhati Roy
#89. 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
#90. There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
Abhishek Bachchan
#91. The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
Alan Arkin
#92. I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
Richard O'Brien
#93. People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.
CM Punk
#94. Opening Payment/ Purchase/ Finance Balance Credits Debits Charges Total Dues 5,983.03 5,983.03 7,708.88
Anonymous
#95. In life, if you are refused membership to a club, you get a refund check for dues paid; what happens to your tithes if Jesus denies you entry to God's Paradise? Mal. 3:10.
Felix Wantang
#96. Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.
Michael Josephson
#97. 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
#98. I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
Eileen Myles
#99. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.
Chris O'Donnell
#100. One door away from heaven
And the key is ours to lose.
One door away from heaven
But oh, the entry dues.
Dean Koontz
