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Tag Name "Dues" (66)

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The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.
Linda Chavez
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Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers.
Big K.R.I.T.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.
Bruce Rauner
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The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.
Mary Antin
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Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
Chuck Norris
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One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
Michel de Certeau
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
Dana Fox
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People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
Richard Donner
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
Richard Pryor
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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.
Emily Mortimer
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The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.
Ronnie Van Zant
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I'm in five guilds that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
Griffin Dunne
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When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.
Sandra Bernhard
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The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's a little inconsistent with the notion of personal, happiness. I am a strong believer in a set of values that are rooted in the notion of happiness and personal fulfillment.
Hugh Hefner
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
James Lee Burke
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what its about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
Taylor Kitsch
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
Jesse Jackson
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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.
Joanne Woodward
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When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
Albert Shanker
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