Quotes with highest-paid

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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Camilo Jose Cela When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
    Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (1964 edition), Atlantic Monthly Press
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Carroll Quigley When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Gloria Swanson When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
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  • Bootsy Collins When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard him say again,
    The heart out of the bosom
    Was never given in vain;
    'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
    And sold for endless rue.
    And I am two-and-twenty
    And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 13, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ben Horowitz When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Beau Willimon When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Frank Zappa Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • George Washington Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Jim Rohn You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Novalis Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • C. A. R. Hoare Due credit must be paid to the genius of the designers of ALGOL 60 who included recursion in their language and enabled me to describe my invention so elegantly to the world.
    The Emperors Old Clothes
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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