Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
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It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.
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Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
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Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)Bronislaw Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942) -
The Duke can get his rent
and we can get our ticket
twa pund emigrant
on a C.P.R. packet.Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14 -
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
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When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.
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