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When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it was a blast to fly! You dressed up, you got in your Sunday best, women wore white gloves, you had room to stretch your legs out, you had a very nice meal, the stewardess paid particular attention to you. It was an event. It's so different today.

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.

What they try and instill in us is to work hard, stay humble and just keep working. That's what we did last year and it paid off.

When we announced Howard's plan to come to SIRIUS back in fall 2004, we had about 700,000 subscribers. At the end of 2005, a week before he began his first show with SIRIUS, our number of paid subscribers had reached 3.3 million.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid morefor what we do.

We found that a huge percentage of the Latinos living in Louisiana and Mississippi are still homeless. They encounter a variety of problems including bugs, mold, skin problems and not getting paid for jobs.

We had 100 kids in each age group and, when the coaches spoke, the players' eyes never left us. These kids were practicing eight hours a day doing all the drills we used to do in the U.S. And it has paid results. Lithuania is a nation the size of Indiana with probably fewer people and they got back-to-back silver medals in the Olympics. That experience got us motivated to teach fundamentals.

We find it ironic and alarming that the people who protect the building are paid less than everyone else who works at the building.

We felt like, if we're going to be able to win, we've got to love each other, we've got to have a great friendship. It's paid off so far.

What made the voice of the people somehow less important than the paid professional journalist?

What's so special about Danica Patrick is that she's a racer, not a novelty or pr gimmick, ... She was under tremendous pressure the entire month of May in Indianapolis and she came through with flying colors. She's paid her dues and now is getting the attention she deserves. Her growing popularity with race fans everywhere is a great boost for the league and we look forward to seeing her in August with Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon and the rest of the stars of the Indy 500.

Usually if you have a shift on, they're paid to hit, not paid to bunt. That's a guy that can hit the ball out of the park with any pitch. With Giambi, if he takes a drag bunt, thank you for the single.

Yes, because what we're coming away with has more than paid what we paid to Brad.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

We're not administrators. We're elected officials who try to do the best things for the city, ... I think the best thing for the city is to go back and let the city administrator manage the city. That's what he gets paid for.

We're a young team and not too many people expected much out of us. We tried to go out there and play hard every day and it paid off.

To pay somebody back means you're probably going to get paid back again somewhere down the road.

Through all of the choke talk and everything else that was said, this team really stuck together when the chips were down and we weren't playing as well together as we knew we could. Everybody stuck together and nobody paid attention to that and we were all a unit, and it paid off in the end.

Yes, he did say to buy a ticket to pass the gate. I think Mr. Wu got what he paid for.

We're really excited. I'm just happy for Alberta. She's worked so hard. She deserves it. She's paid her dues and she deserves it.

We know we have kids who can catch and kids who can throw and we preach it all the time about hanging in there, believing and keep hustling for something good will happen. Finally, it paid off.

We know his time of need, the situation he's in with the team, he's not the highest paid guy on the team so financially it's a really important thing right now. We'll try to work together and try to give him something to help his family out.

Very cheap for a house this size. If we hadn't paid attention to conserving energy, our bill could easily be $350 a month.

Ultimately, we're just here to get our money back. We don't wish Mr Stewart any ill will. He was paid a lot of money to do something he did not do. It's merely a contractual matter.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

We're not here to make a statement. It's good the results are showing up at the track. The last few years we've been working extremely hard. Toyota worked hard with us, and unfortunately, Honda was always at the top of the game. Right now things are more balanced, so we are very happy those two years paid off.

We've tried to focus not so much on an individual effort but a team effort. Our passing was really good and it paid off.

You work, you get paid, you drink.

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Whenever you have a five-man that makes free throws, it makes it a lot easier because he's going to get fouled the most. He's been working hard and it's paid off for him.

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

When you're working in Hollywood you have these actors who go to their trailers, they're getting paid millions of dollars, they act like spoiled children. They don't really want to work. And the crew knows that. They don't respect them, ... Jamie Foxx is the antithesis of that.

When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They packed him up and tossed him out. If they had just paid him, he probably would have just gone his way.

We were trying to be a band that could play what we wanted to play, and people seemed to enjoy it, so that was real gratifying. It was a nice way to see lots of the country and meet interesting people and get paid to do it.

We were trying some new things, switching people around. We were having too many hitting errors and needed more positive hits. I think it paid off.

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

We were hoping to be able to make some plays, but it was the same old story. We booted some routine plays and gave them some extra outs and we paid for it.

(Women of Wal-Mart) was a real watershed moment for Playboy.com in terms of the number of people who actually paid money to get access to the pay-per-view part of the feature,

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.

People have paid for content. They always have.

We acknowledge that fact that the base (salary) for the lowest paid officer is fairly low, but it creates employment. If we raise it then employers will make use of technology instead.

We are going to make errors. We did the same thing two years ago when we had sophomores on the varsity, but it paid off when they became juniors and seniors.

We are not aware of any ransom paid for any of the hostages,

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

There are persistent reports that Leandro Aragoncillo has been paid by some popular personalities here in this country. We would like to investigate whether there are bases or evidence to prove these reports.

There are no laws that I know of, from speaking with the state's attorney's office, that requires a body to be embalmed. However if that's what you paid for, we're treating this as a theft of service or fraud. The family believed they paid for one thing and they received another.

There are some questions about the future of the paid preparer part of their business.

There are some players that have a quiet confidence in what they can do. I believe Alex has that confidence. ... He believes in himself. He knows he has paid the price to properly prepare for the opportunity.

The only way to fight this is to do exactly what we have done when it came to violence. We have to take away the points because it happens in those leagues where the money is sufficient so, even if you gave a fine of $100,000, it would be paid the next day. That does not change the attitude, so you have to go into a sporting sanction.

We're playing in front of our fans. We're playing an NFC opponent. The playoff thing, it hurts, but we're all grown men and we've got to go out and play the game that we love to play and get paid to do.

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

We're asking the judge in this case to stop the promoter from promoting their particular scam. We also (are) asking for the liability to be paid back.

We hit the ball well tonight. We were finding the gaps and hitting the ball in the right spots. We were really aggressive on the base paths and that really paid off.

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We have put some nice touches to it making it more appealing and it's all paid for.

When you get to my age, what you want is the cameo. You get paid a lot of money. You fly in for a couple of weeks. Everybody treats you like the crown jewels. It's all great and if the film turns out to be a load of s - -, nobody blames you.

We've shipped a new version of Windows, we've paid an historic fine and we've provided unprecedented access to Microsoft technology to promote interoperability with other industry players. Yet every time we make a change, we find that the Commission moves the goal post and demands another change.

We've shipped a new version of Windows, we've paid an historic fine, and we've provided unprecedented access to Microsoft technology to promote interoperability with other industry players. In total, we have now responded to more than 100 requests from the Commission.

The fact of the matter is, that was a school day because we called our employees to work. Therefore, they were paid for that day of service. So it can't be a snow day at the point because you have your employees at the work place.

The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.

The fact is, under his influence, Richmond had among the highest crime rates in the commonwealth, the schools were consistently ranked near the bottom statewide, and people paid more in taxes.

The fact is that since the passage of the Maryland electric industry restructuring law in 1999, BGE residential customers have benefited from a substantially lower rate structure ... well below the market rates paid in other parts of the country. BGE has no choice but to procure power at prevailing market rates. Every dollar deferred is a dollar that might not be invested in infrastructure for the utility.

The problem with The Exorcist was that I wasn't holding any cards. They paid me for the movie, so they own the movie. It's like if you made this chair and I buy it from you. You want me to sit on the chair, and I want to put it in my fireplace. What are you gonna do? Time to go off and make another chair.

The real difficulty will be creating 1,900 good jobs for workers with high school diplomas ? full-time jobs that pay enough to raise a family, that include health and pension benefits, and that have paid sick leave and vacations. But how to do this in a global economy is a huge challenge that every country in the world is grappling with.

The real cause is Arafat, ... paid with the blood of his people.

There is a lot of double-checking going on to make sure that all our players are eligible by school and league standards. We also have to take care of our own financing to make sure people are correctly paid for gas money and accommodations while traveling with the team.

When I wake up every morning and realize that I get to go out and do music as opposed to having to say, 'Would you like fries with that, sir?' I'm so thankful that I'm actually paid to do this thing that I've loved all my life.

The process is: you send the bills in for reimbursement and when you go home, someone comes up and says 'Congresswoman, I don't know how to broach this with you, but you haven't paid your bill.'

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

We have a similar challenge to about a dozen teams, because the Buccaneers over the last six seasons have paid their players extremely well. That's why we have these cap issues.

We have a really great group of kids this year who have been willing to work very hard and it has paid off.

This project was approved before Terry Johnson was mayor. When Terry lived in the house (on Barnwell), he paid $2,000 a month rent just like anyone else. He didn't get any favors. He paid rent. He paid utilities.

This problem has spread from Southern California to Northern California and it's a profit-driven practice and it's a disturbing practice. Your children bond with the puppy. You paid $1,000 and you have no seller to go back to and that puppy's dead in 24 hours.

We've seen a big increase in the percentage of customers who pay for gas with Visa and MasterCard instead of cash, and they also are shifting away from cards like American Express that have to be paid off in full every month.

We've saved a considerable amount, and we're considerably below what was paid for the last station in this area. People seemed to be a little more cautious this time. I think there were more veteran bidders with a little more savvy.

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

When I look at the list, Chase is running the company. Chase paid a lot for J.P. Morgan and it's theirs to run.

When I asked for that prepayment, I asked for that to assist our members with back to school expenses and hurricane preparedness. We asked the Government to consider it being paid at the end of August before school had re-opened.

When I heard the buzzer go off, I was so excited I wanted to scream. I put in a lot of hard work and it all paid off right there.

All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself.

The price you see at the gas station is really based on the gas station owners expectations of what they have to replace the gas in their tanks, not what they paid for it.

The price tag was high really due to the research and program development. We're all aware that at that price, this system couldn't be duplicated at other schools. But most of the money was paid for the development. So my prediction is that in the future, the price of this system will be much lower.

The prices paid is still way up there, inflation is still running a little hot, enough that the Fed will continue to raise interest rates.

The prices paid component plays into fears that the Fed may be behind the curve.

The price of your property is not the price at which you purchase it for, unless of course if you paid for it fully in cash...

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

We were definitely happy. It's always good to come home with two medalists, so we're proud of them. They've put in a lot of work the last five years, and it's paid off.

We were cold from the floor. Then we came out in the third quarter with a full-court press, and it paid off for us. We were able to control the game the rest of the way.

When you consider that Mosquito Creek alone paid out over $21,000 in prize money for the 2005 hunt last February, a successful hunter, with one coyote and having entered all three hunts, could really cash in big time.

When we started Quest, we anted to do something different. We wanted to build an audience first and then have a big show. It's paid off so far.

When we started out (as freshmen), we were like the youngest Division I team in the country. So basically we just had to buy into what our coach was telling us. He always tried to keep us focused. We always believed he knew what he was talking about. We stuck with it, and it paid off for us.

When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300, and they said you cannot use it because it is taken. Pegasus Funds. Then we said Pegasus is kind of a horse. We did not want to be the Unicorn Fund. So we pulled out a horse book.

When two months were up, I called his landlord. His landlord said he hadn't paid his rent and no one in the neighborhood had seen him.

When the temperature is freezing, it's a bit hard on your fingers, but I was interested in putting down what I saw. And that's what paid off.

We want to make sure that the kind of ballpark we agreed upon will be built, that it can be paid for as we have agreed, that the team be able to exercise adequate control over the ballpark site, that we understand the limits of the legislative power to further rewrite contracts we enter into and that the balance of burdens and benefits agreed to by us in mediation is readdressed, since it has been seriously disrupted by the legislation.