Top 70 Dues Quotes

We like to joke that India has sick companies but rich promoters. Yet, even after the bad loans and non-payment of dues have turned at least three banks sick, there is no public demand for investigation, accountability and punishment.

I’m a New Yorker; I’ve paid my dues.

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you’ve got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

The joy is in the work. The travel is the dues you pay.

When E! ended the show, it wasn’t because it was low-rated. It was because E! did not want to pay union rerun dues.

The way Everest is guided is very different from the way other mountains are guided, and it flies in the face of values I hold dear: self-reliance, taking responsibility for what you do, making your own decisions, trusting your judgment – the kind of judgment that comes only through paying your dues, through experience.

I’ve done stuff to pay my dues and that’s what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

When you know the truth is on your side, when you have dutifully paid all your taxes, but you are still targeted for non-payment of dues, then what do you do? You grin and bear the harassment because you have nothing to hide.

I’ve been debating with people over what an album actually means in 2018. Certain artists who have paid their dues and proven themselves have almost the privilege to put out a full length album.

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn’t real philanthropy; that’s just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn’t played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.

I’ve worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren’t there when I came back. It’s like, ‘Wait a second – what happened here?’ It was a real learning experience. I’ve paid my dues, I will tell you that.

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations’ dues to sustain the UN’s operations.

It’s a long road of paying your dues. Each and every person that’s in this business has to go down that road. Some people may not have to. Some people may be given that road instantly because of who they are.

I’m in five guilds; that’s a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

I’ve only half-admitted I’m a professional. I know I am, I’ve paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I’m acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

Sugarcane farmers are suffering in U.P… their grievances are being ignored amid empty announcements. When our party was in power, we made sure dues of sugarcane farmers were paid.

Not everyone gets a reservation in the hot restaurant. You must pay your dues. Like it or not there is a pecking order.

You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is – something guys in the business today don’t really understand, don’t have a clue.

I’ve paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston – a lot of people have studied with me. It’s paying my dues.

I haven’t had to struggle very much. I haven’t paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

What you want is for music to love you back. That’s why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

For the last 20 years, political parties have had a one-way relationship with youth – of exploiting them for political gains and denying them their dues.

I’ve paid my dues. It wasn’t overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions… But I’ve got to give luck some credit.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

There’s some dues that you just have to pay in life.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it’s a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven’t paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

If we were at a bar in a small town and not many people were there, people would bug me to bring in my guitar and play. I was paying my dues, learning how it all worked.

It’s not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you the cache to do be able to go and do something else that you want. There’s some dues that you just have to pay in life.

I think I’m starting to be able to stand a little taller. I feel like I paid my dues and I feel like I deserve to be where I am. I feel like I’ve worked really hard.

I do think everybody pays their dues in Gilead, whether you’re the most high-up commander or not. Everybody has to face the consequences of their actions.

If I hadn’t had the talent, the networks wouldn’t have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

You just pour your heart and soul into a project, and everyone pays their dues, and everyone on the crew, everyone works so hard. Then you just don’t know how the show ends up. You just hope that it turns out great, and you hope that people respond to it, and you hope that the network accepts a Season Two.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Nobody’s going to step in and dump a lot of money and make it easy. Unless you have a lot of money, you have to pay your dues and make a personal sacrifice.

When the country’s indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.

I feel like we cheated… because you read about these other directors, just like, ‘Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.’ We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.

I’m the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

In the end, if you’re in the UFC, you are a professional, you paid your dues, and you know exactly what this job entails. You should go in there as a professional and do what you do.

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it’s not real, otherwise.

There’s something wrong in a nation where six million black men are not allowed to vote because they were convicted of felonies. They’ve paid their dues to society, but yet their right to vote is not reinstated.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I definitely paid my dues, and I’m grateful for everything and for my good friends.

I got to a point where I was completely typecast, and I knew I was paying my dues, and I was happy to do so because I knew that’s what had to happen, and I loved acting. But I would never go back.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

I’m in the position where I don’t have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being more experimental, if that’s what I choose to do. I guess I’ve earned the right by being in the business for a while and paying the dues and taking the lumps.

In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.

Whenever someone forces me to do something against my will, they’re infringing upon my freedoms and my liberties. And that’s what I think we’re doing in Maine when we have fair share, which means that you are required to belong to a union, you’re required to pay dues, but you don’t want to participate.

I can act. I’ve been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don’t nobody owe you nothing. You’ve go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don’t go from M to Z.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

The blueprint, for me, was having an understanding of self because this business will try to make you somebody other than yourself or make you change with the times. A lot of times, people will want you to do everything for free, work for free, to be down to do this after you paid your dues.