Quotes About Paying

#1. The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Am I the next Bill Simmons? I don't think so. I haven't built a media property. He's the best at finding voices he likes and paying people money to work for him.

Katie Nolan

#3. [With] closet indexing ... you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

Charlie Munger

#4. And to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations with my imaginary friends.

Jim Butcher

#5. My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

Eric Idle

#6. When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.

Lee Daniels

#7. The Court of Dreams.
The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares ... And the huntress with an artist's soul.

Sarah J. Maas

#8. There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it,

Damian Kulash

#9. As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Michael Lewis

#10. If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can become what you were fated to become - an individual, a Master. STRATEGIES

Robert Greene

#11. At the very least, the data they sell means you get to use genuinely useful services like Facebook and Google without paying money for them. What we get in return for the government's intrusion is less straightforward.

Christian Rudder

#12. When I heard 'Moon River', at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it's kind of you and me against the world, and we're going to make it together.

Drew Holcomb

#13. My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.

Paul Dano

#14. To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.

Donald Faison

#15. My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny ... You give my son back, and I'll pay my taxes.

Cindy Sheehan

#16. If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

Jim Cooper

#17. Since I work in home solar, I can't resist focusing on the amazing developments happening here. What many homeowners don't know is that they can have solar installed on their roofs without owning the panels or paying the high upfront costs.

Lynn Jurich

#18. The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. 'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

Alex Pareene

#20. You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.

Bob Lefsetz

#21. My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.

Adam Carolla

#22. On one hand, it's nice on the other side. Secrets don't exist. There's nothing to ignore, and no destiny. On the other hand, the same thing is possible in life, if only we'd start paying attention to the right stuff.

A.S. King

#23. You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Robin Williams

#24. I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

James Lovelock

#25. If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.

Sean Covey

#26. My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

Joe Biden

#27. You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion.

Aerin Lauder

#28. Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

Bill Murray

#30. We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.

Felix Sabates

#31. It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

Kevin Smith

#32. You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Paulo Coelho

#33. If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

Steven Soderbergh

#34. People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

Sydney Pollack

#35. I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

Christine O'Donnell

#36. Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

Noreena Hertz

#37. The sofa has to go first. We can put that right in the truck to go to the church."
"Is something going on I don't know about? Is the church paying top dollar for old stuff or something?

Cat Johnson

#38. Beware of curiously shaped or oddly-got-up bottles: you are likely to be paying for the parcel rather than what is wrapped up in it.

Kingsley Amis

#39. I'm not perfect and I'm not always right, but I'm here, open, paying attention, loving you, and fully engaged.

Brene Brown

#40. The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.

Paul Singer

#41. The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

Matthew Yglesias

#42. I'm no heartthrob. Honestly, I am really happy that people are just giving me a chance and paying attention to what it is I have to say, because I certainly hope I have a lot more to say than I do to look at. That's more important to me.

Gavin DeGraw

#43. The crazy part of my mind is like a mischievous pet I have to keep watch over or it might behave badly while I'm not paying attention.

Margaret Sartor

#44. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

Eduardo Saverin

#45. My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

Jenna Bush

#46. You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

David Harewood

#47. If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. - Andrew Lewis, under the alias Blue_beetle, on the Web site MetaFilter

Eli Pariser

#48. Now he knew ... that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

Susan Vreeland

#49. Haters are just more people paying attention to you.

Mindy Kaling

#50. My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

Lech Walesa

#51. If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.

Bear Bryant

#52. So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?

Julie Chen

#53. My dad always said we're at the mercy of something greater than ourselves and whatever humanity we don't show to others, we pay for. We're paying for.

Courtney Summers

#54. Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

Alain De Botton

#55. Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

Nonito Donaire

#56. Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

Paul LePage

#57. Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

Henry Ford

#58. They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

Cass Elliot

#59. A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

Carl T. Rowan

#60. There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

Joan Rivers

#61. It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

Frank Caliendo

#62. I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

Biz Stone

#63. People change and people keep change and we keep paying ticket fines and hoping that that means something close to love, and I'm bankrupt from missing you.

Shinji Moon

#64. I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history. We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war.

John McCain

#65. I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.

Sara Bareilles

#66. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time.

Susan Cain

#67. Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

Chris Matthews

#68. O. J. Simpson theory of legal fees: I'm not paying you; you're lucky to be here; go make a buck with your book.

John Grisham

#69. How many times have I missed an incredible connection that could have been made because I had my face in my phone instead of paying attention to those around me?

Adam Braun

#70. I'm really paying attention to my surroundings. All of a sudden my senses feel sharper, clearer; my entire being feels like it's humming with a renewed kind of energy. I am electric.

Tahereh Mafi

#71. The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul

Deepak Chopra

#72. We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

Matthew Fox

#73. I fidget through class, barely paying attention to Mrs. Schumaker droning on about wagon trains and buffalo. I get it. Life on the prairie was tough. Churning your own butter? Yay for the Industrial Revolution.

Mick Bogerman

#74. I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

David Rubenstein

#75. If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.

Bill Maher

#76. I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

Greg Maddux

#77. Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

James Sinegal

#78. As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're paying for.

Chellie Pingree

#79. I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.

Will Ferrell

#80. I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention.' I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#81. The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

Robert Jordan

#82. Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.

Stefan Molyneux

#83. Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Timothy Noah

#84. I figure if there is a God, he or she isn't paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but copping a ride on our shoulders, watching what we do ever day. Seeing if we took this great big adventure called life and did something interesting with it.

Karen Marie Moning

#85. One final insight about prioritizing involves getting disciplined about what you don't put on the stage. This means not thinking when you don't have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it's truly essential that you do.

David Rock

#86. But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#87. Then I told myself that as I never gave the Church a thought when I was feeling happy, I could hardly expect it to do anything for me when I wasn't. You can't get insurance money without paying in premiums.

Dodie Smith

#88. Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs.

Tristram Stuart

#89. You can't just walk into someone's house and take $15 bucks out of someone's wallet and then walk out with their song. You can't do that. You got to know the difference between stealing from being cool to the band and paying them what they're deserved.

Richard Patrick

#90. I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection

Jon Richardson

#91. The grace and mercy by which you are not arrested for not paying your daily oxygen bills, is the grace that is sufficient to take you through successfully. It's the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Enjoy it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#92. People are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#93. Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

Ann Landers

#94. Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

Amy Poehler

#95. I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

Rupert Everett

#96. With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process towards application for citizenship.

Mitt Romney

#97. Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Angela Davis

#98. I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

Burt Reynolds

#99. The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?

Paul Tudor Jones

#100. By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

Deepak Chopra