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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.


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MARK TWAIN Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
GARRETT CLAYTON Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
CLINT EASTWOOD I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living bu...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
HARRY CREWS You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe eac...
ANI DIFRANCO Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
KINKY FRIEDMAN The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opport...
OWEN D. YOUNG Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.
COREY TAYLOR It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the w...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Brent was essentially an idiot who wasn't that bad but just wanted to be popular, ... whereas Andy h...
RICKY GERVAIS Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from ...
MAYA ANGELOU Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourse...
SUZY KASSEM Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourse...
SUZY KASSEM The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERT The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the worl...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the worl...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you not...
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Give more of ...
SUZY KASSEM I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseba...
BOB FELLER If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
PETER FALK There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
MARK CAINE The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying...
MERYL STREEP He is rich who owes nothing
HUNGARIAN PROVERB The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little...
WILL ROGERS This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE His message of peace and love was universal. He is the man to whom the world owes a great debt of gr...
HERMAN BOONE I think in a way the world owes him and his memory a tremendous amount of gratitude.
MARVIN HIER You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t...
HENRY FORD II He is rich who owes nothing.
HUNGARIAN PROBERB He is rich who owes nothing.
PROVERB You say you nothing owe, and so I say; He only owes, who has something to pay
PROVERB I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
HANS EYSENCK Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.
AVI The company owes answers to the mining families, the company owes answers to me, the company owes an...
MARK SCHWEIKER I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you...
TAYLOR LAUTNER The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little edu...
WILL ROGERS If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money ...
HENRY KRAVIS I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you...
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MADS MIKKELSEN Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
JACK DEMPSEY If you're embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don't forget the toilet paper.
RICHARD BRANSON From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and...
BILL WATTERSON Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no dif...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and ...
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BILLY DEE WILLIAMS Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as t...
SAM WORTHINGTON Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Life owes you nothing but death, live each day to it's fullest until there are no days left!
TAURUS MORGAN A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nin...
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TONY BRADY Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.
UNKNOWN Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle
LORD BYRON You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav...
STEVEN ADLER The last thing our president is supposed to do is commit troops, not the first thing. I think that h...
JULIE BRYANT Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even wi...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in yo...
CANDIS CAYNE The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was fo...
HAL HOLBROOK It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so r...
MARK TWAIN Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something...
GUY KAWASAKI They are like lobbyists. They're spreading the money around, so whoever wins owes them.
JUAN COLE I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.
NIECY NASH You don't get a chance to go to the playoffs and World Series very often, but to be able to expe...
BEN ZOBRIST Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows.
TOM DOUGLAS If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really...
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