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The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. -- Niklas Zennstrom
What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience. -- Tom Wilson
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. -- Oscar Wilde
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. -- Mario Cuomo
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables. -- Paul Hawken
The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. -- Bob Balaban
And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened. -- Patty Hearst
Charging a premium amount allows me to offer a premium service. -- Ramit Sethi
And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster. -- Richelle Mead
Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. -- John Milius
Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere. -- Robert G. Picard
A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning. -- Tom Brokaw
If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. -- Kim Garst
Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast. -- Jay Leno
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother. -- Will Rogers
The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe. -- Edward Abbey
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. -- Walter Isaacson
Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both. -- Patricia Briggs
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians". -- Charles Stross
Tara Reid is charging $3,500 for a personal appearance fee. So, for only $3,500 you can either buy a 1998 Jetta with 130,000 miles on it... or Tara Reid, who only has 98,000 miles on her. -- Chelsea Handler
In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued, would not only plug the revenue gap; it would also help to re-establish value in their news product. -- Lionel Barber
Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great for producing widgets on a production line, but it makes no sense in a world where customers are inherently different. -- Peter Fader
To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them. -- Carol Moseley Braun
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough. -- Criss Jami
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. -- Linus Torvalds
Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern. -- Brad Alan Lewis
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted. -- George Will
There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge. -- Yo-Yo Ma
We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam. -- Tre Cool
The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it. -- Danny Meyer
You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving. -- Mario Batali
Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line. -- Matt Groening
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime. -- Bill Dedman
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available evidence. Anything less is not justice. -- Robert P. McCulloch
Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture. -- Dick York
It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies. -- Bernie Sanders
How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared. -- Caryl Chessman
Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things. -- Michael Moore
Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here. -- Gray Davis
We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune. -- Ronnie Wood
I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with. -- Gabe Newell
If you live in a yard sale kind of neighborhood - in good weather, most neighborhoods are crawling with them on weekends - do a sweep to see what the competition is charging. No one is going to buy your $7 book if they can get it down the block for $1. -- Jean Chatzky
You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind. -- Grace Coddington
Change is like a charging cow. Don't ignore it - milk it -- Andrew Leigh
Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate. -- Bob Seger
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out. -- Roger Ebert
When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem. -- Anthony Liccione
The courage to charge for what you do comes from charging for what you do. -- Marie Forleo
The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free. -- B. Joseph Pine II
Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
People were laughing at me anyway, so I thought I might as well start charging them. -- Sarah Millican
God released his blessings upon us for us to do what He is charging us to do. -- Sunday Adelaja
That ugly freak has spent so much time in my head, I should be charging him rent." -Four -- Pittacus Lore
People will pay for content ... Everybody is going to have to start charging. They'd be crazy not to. -- Lloyd Braun
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing......everything else is just figure skating. -- Scotty Bowman
I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse. -- Lilith Saintcrow
I'd probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we'd all see who really uses them and who doesn't. -- Maria Sharapova
We have a person that wants to balance the budget by charging $1,000 to every family who spanks their child. -- Sean Hannity
You see, most people play louder to get someone's attention, but getting quieter can stop a bull from charging. -- Victor L. Wooten
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. -- Marcus Buckingham
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. -- Steve Martin
Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him. -- David Letterman
The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war. -- Jerry Falwell
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I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it. -- Tim Conway
Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff. -- Barack Obama
My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside. -- Joe Flaherty
I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead. -- Edmund Hillary
Learning to charge properly is a vital key to abundance. Affirm that you will never devalue yourself by charging less than what you feel you are worth. -- Stuart Wilde
I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal. -- Eoin Colfer
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle -- Robert Louis Stevenson
... from Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror ... -- Golda Meir
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ. -- Michelangelo
Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow. -- Narendra Modi
My bank is the worst. They are screwing me. You know what they did to me? They're charging me money for not having enough money. Apparently, when you're broke, that costs money. -- Louis C. K.
Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway. -- David Sedaris
You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours. -- Mark Lanegan
In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers. -- Chris Kyle
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas. -- Rick Riordan
Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea. -- Rick Riordan
Now this really annoys me: All these people getting on the Internet and saying Nostradamus predicted this. If Nostradamus were alive today his name would be Miss Cleo and he'd be charging $2.99 a minute. -- Jay Leno

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