My WWE career has been amazing. It took a lot of time for me to get here, and you never stop paying your dues.
My dad had two college degrees but came here and was boxing pizzas. He was willing to pay his dues for the opportunity to live here and breathe this air.
Comedians really are like a species. That’s not to be exclusive. Anyone can kind of become one. You have to pay your dues, though.
Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don’t even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.
I paid my dues; I certainly did.
We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I’m doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia.
When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are – how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It’s worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of ’em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
I think I’ve paid my dues. I’ve really put in a lot of time on set.
Someone might look like an overnight success, but there’s a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That’s the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.
And I’d spent 20 years in bars and nightclubs, dealing with promoters and getting ripped off and just everything that comes with all that stuff – paying your dues, I guess.
I’m getting used to this as a coach because it’s a little jealousy from a lot of these coaches around the country. I do understand that, because we are NBA players trying to come back, and we didn’t have any experience as college coaches. So we didn’t, quote, unquote, ‘Pay our dues.’
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