After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

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

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.
Alex Morrison

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
Mike Tyson

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.
Leif Garrett

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

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.
Lisa Marie Presley

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
Richard O'Brien

I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
Victoria Pratt

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

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.
Sugar Ray Leonard

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.
Chuck Zito

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

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Annie Lennox

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
Richard Donner

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.
Mary Antin

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

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.
Frank Gaffney