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. Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.
Zach Nelson
#7. I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.
Leif Garrett
#8. 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
#9. Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
Kevin O'Leary
#11. 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
#12. Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
Howard Rheingold
#13. Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]
Ovid
#14. 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
#15. I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
Victoria Pratt
#16. With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler!
Michael Trevino
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell
#21. The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs
he will give the devil his due.
William Shakespeare
#22. 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
#23. Your dues don't have to be paid all at once, but they do have to be paid in full.
Bryan Way
#25. I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
Ed Sheeran
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#31. 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
#33. Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.
Narendra Modi
#34. You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
Richard Pryor
#35. Worry is interest paid before it's due.
Zig Ziglar
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.
Cynthia Dill
#39. In due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!
Brenda Jackson
#40. All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing
Carl Henegan
#41. Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.
Lupe Fiasco
#42. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.
Roger Miller
#47. I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
Mike Tyson
#48. You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy.
Ringo Starr
#49. 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
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Posterity will pay everyone their due.
Tacitus
#55. 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
#57. I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
David Quammen
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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.
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
Plautus
#68. With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.
Robbie Keane
#69. I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
Griffin Dunne
#70. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#71. I'm a believer in paying your dues.
Dana Fox
#72. 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
#73. Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#77. Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.
Tom Black
#78. 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
#79. People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
Richard Donner
#80. Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.
Mark Vonnegut
#82. It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.
Bon Scott
#83. 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
#84. Maybe my viriety is due to bad absorption of vitamins.
Stephen Hawking
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
Albert Shanker
#88. I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.
Alex Morrison
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#97. By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
Norman Vincent Peale
#99. That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.
Benjamin Franklin
#100. And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his ...
Anne Fortier
