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  • The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.

    Oil   Blood   Together  
  • I'm thinking in my head I'd like to have five minutes alone with this guy to get some payback. But you got to keep a level head. You just got to get to the house, search, find anything you can to put these guys away and bring some justice and get some revenge for our brothers who were lost.

  • Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

    Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.
  • Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great.

    Payback   Want   Lays  
  • It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

    Destiny   Risk   Payback  
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.831, Random House
  • Diversity, to the left, means minorities get even with, minorities triumph, minorities get payback. That's what diversity means.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be ridiculously persistent. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Working at a big company sucks--avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning. Be generous with your time and money--it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love--and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

    Mean   Passion   People  
  • What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

    Distance   Giving   Bed  
  • Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

    Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.68, David C Cook
  • The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hospital, and the first thought a lot of people have is, I'll sue the doctor. You feel helpless, and you think, I'm less helpless if I'm doing something active that makes someone else pay. And social media make it easy to inflict all kinds of pain on other people. But what good does it do?

    Mother   Pain   Revenge  
    Source: www.neh.gov
  • Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.

    Mom   Dream   Jobs  
    "J. Cole tributes his mom Kay Cole in Born Sinner series" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 8, 2013.
  • Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

  • A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

    Cutting   Loss   Winning  
    Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.38, Harper Collins
  • We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

    Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.187, Random House
  • Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

    Evil   Payback   Life Is  
    Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
  • In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

  • My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

  • Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.

    Children   Taken   Kids  
    Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.
  • One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.

    Country   Years   Long  
    "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.
  • This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.

    Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.302, Penguin
  • There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

    Jasper Fforde (2004). “Something rotten”
  • Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

    Self   Pay   Injustice  
  • You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

    Karma   Believe   People  
    YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.
  • Revenge is a meal best served cold.

    Revenge   Meals   Cold  
    "Fictional character: Creasy". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.
  • It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.

    Hate   Hands   Color  
    "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.
  • Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

  • In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

    Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.457, Macmillan
  • Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

    Justice   Payback   Blind  
    "The Daily Show with John Stewart", October 02, 2007.
  • The ultimate act of cowardice is the fat-headed wrestling guy sitting behind the frail kid in math class, clipping him on the ear, saying: 'What are you going to do about that, faggot?' That is cowardice. When the bullets start flying past that jock's saucer-shaped ears, that's not cowardice. That's payback.

    Kids   Wrestling   Math  
  • One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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