We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.
When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.
Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.
Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic.
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.
