#paid

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge. ↗

— Robert Purvis

#advise #am #born #bought #elect

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid. ↗

— Will Smith

#create #focus #get #had #i

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#because #great #iraq #paid #prices

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#paid #paying #seen #sentences #simply

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility. ↗

— John Rowland

#am #around #ask #attention #connecticut

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. ↗

— Jim Evans

#literally #paid #texas #through #umpiring

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#although #american #american history #attention #body

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#big #commit #company #doing #dollar

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#game #get #getting #lot #love

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#capital #date #death #further #higher