#paid

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. ↗

— Robert Peel

#being #citizen #community #duties #every

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#afford #because #being #copied #enraged

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women. ↗

— Kyle D. Pruett

#competence #fulfilled #get #happier #her

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