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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Brendan Behan

They recognize it costs money. They see it as badly spending taxpayer money.

Mark Muchow

It costs too much and benefits too few people. If the school feels strongly about it, they can do it on their own.

Robert Pflaum

If the unions ask for more than British Airways are offering, then there won't be much sympathy. British Airways has had to cut costs, and the unions know that.

Stephen Furlong

Inflation is screaming. All you have to do is look at your life and what it costs.

Leonard Kaplan

It definitely costs an overweight person more.

Morgan Downey

In our business, managing your labor costs is paramount.

Doug Jackson

The higher the price of oil goes, the higher your costs are, even with hedging.

Klaus Breil

We offered them a cap on insurance (costs for employees), and they wanted more and more and more.

Jeff Meyers

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

Antonio Porchia

The case at the MPSC is a routine process for determining our costs for 2004.

Scott Simons

They're showing progress. They promised us they would cut costs.

Stephen Kamman

He was able to get SGA to cover the extra costs of going to the MU game.

Bochen Uang

It costs to much to have them dug up. There's a lot of people said the same thing. If they could afford to have them dug up they would be removed.

Janice Terry

It's a simple way for us to do a lot of fundraising without exerting a lot of energy and adding to administrative costs.

Dani Johnson

We have the highest unit labor costs in the industry.

Neal Cohen

Gaming revenue will be available, and they are going to cover the costs for the SEA.

Kevin Evanto

That drop in attendance overwhelmed the lower costs.

Paul Richard

Basically, costs associated with labor and manufacturing have caught up to us.

Patrick Rainey

Their costs have been upwards of twice as much as normal harvesting.

Joel Nelsen

We are giving the company the benefit of the doubt in terms of these costs savings.

Steven Barlow

Consumers get value out of the gadgets, and then pass off all costs of contamination.

Jim Puckett

They may have found a way to afford a university [education] ... but they didn't know all the associated costs.

Rep. Timm Ormsby

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Joe Kasper

What makes me more comfortable is that they've controlled some manufacturing costs and also brought marketing costs down.

Joe Blankenship

It's sobering to see the costs exacted by the Valley's polluted air.

Jane Hall

A lot of smaller companies, and even a lot of medium-sized ones, cannot afford the costs of getting up and back in business.

Don Hutchinson

This has to do with costs and competition.

John Bukovinsky

Money costs too much.

Ross Macdonald

There are so many things that can go wrong and so many hidden costs.

Tim Carter

What we're dealing with are the children of immigrants who drive a lot of these costs. Most of the children of immigrants are U.S. citizens. They are us.

Wade Buchanan

We appreciate being eligible to cover certain costs.

Sarah Elliott

It just costs money to have marketing materials.

Susan Foy

We're trying to keep all costs down.

Angela Adams

Organizations are looking for ways to cut costs.

Dan Kusnetzky

So we're coming back with a new set of proposals and costs.

Shannon Lewis

In reality, it costs money.

Jim Mcmasters

Let's find a way to reduce the costs.

Aaron Lincoln

We can't pass the costs along. We can't control the market. We don't really have any place to go if wages spiral out of control.

Luawanna Hallstrom

It can be as high 20 to 25 cents on the dollar for administrative costs.

Gerry Snyder

Since all the bikes are donated [to BNB in the U.S.], we only charge the head of the business for the shipping costs and a 10 percent administration fee.

Carl Kurz

You can't be stubborn. You can't try to run the ball at all costs.

Mick Miyamoto

Cost is the bottom line. Everything costs more.

Gayle Bradley

I can tell you that Sen. Graham is concerned about energy costs in general.

Kevin Bishop

We weren't keeping track of costs, and we exceeded our ability to pay for it all.

Keith Bradkowski

I want to look a little more at maintenance and programming costs.

Doug Harris

The surprises were all on the positive side. I was worried that costs would be out of control.

Walter Price

We cannot continue to charge somebody what it had cost us in 1994. Our costs have gone up 70%.

Howard Marder

After driving around your community this afternoon, I have to say that, at all costs, save your courthouse and your schoolhouse.

Joe Gillie

In the UK costs about 50 pounds, about 100-dollars to fill up at home.

Phil Morris

My attitude is: it's about time they start doing things about their overhead and costs.

Roger Mcnamee

We need to bring our costs back under control. It needs to stop.

Jim Oberweis

In 2005, we ended up $400,000 in the red. We were not collecting for the costs the co-op had. It just wasn't a stellar year.

Robert Hartman

He's putting those costs on the backs of the counties and on the backs of the recipients.

Dennis Wittig

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Dodie Smith

Each dollar added to the price of a barrel of oil adds $1 billion in costs to the industry.

Giovanni Bisignani

The average short-term access costs less than $20 per day.

Bill Haas

Change is not synonymous with cutting costs.

Richard Clark

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

A traffic signal costs a lot more than $25,000. What can you say? They're getting off cheap.

Al Hartkopf

He must be from around here and we need to find him at all costs because it's disrespectful to the dead.

Michalakis Christodoulou

I'm concerned about the county; I'm concerned about the costs. I don't see what the county does for us personally.

James Newman

It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs.

Greg Adkins

We'd have to make sure it was compensation for costs and that it did not provide a profit for the organs.

Belinda Wright

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

Alphonso Jackson

It will cover whatever it costs to take care of them.

Marilyn Elam

We just have to absorb the costs, ... It's not a good thing.

Chuck Olson

Is it plausible to use the contingency fund to cover these costs?

Gary Mathews

Now the equipment in the car costs more than the car.

Sal Trentanelli

There are so few costs that we can control that this is a game of inches.

Mark Dunkerley

The positive rationale behind a deal would be the potential to cut more costs.

Rene Locher

It has to do with the severity and frequency of bad fires. It's a choice, but it's always tempered with the costs.

Don Artley

They were mostly worried about Oracle (bilking) them on maintenance costs.

Bruce Richardson

It costs everyone more when they have to send their containers back empty.

David Bryant

Our residents did not ask for gaming, and they should not have to shoulder the costs associated with it.

Robert Coleman

It costs almost 400 percent more than it did in December 2001 to fill up a plane.

Martin George

The biggest problem is that the benefits of Part D, the costs and the availability are not universal.

Lee Graczyk

The soft underbelly is the costs. The costs are going up quickly for them. It's troubling.

James Halloran

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Dwight David Eisenhower

It covered roughly half the costs of mounting the exhibit.

Bill Dewalt

They need to come back with three distinct options and costs.

John Longacre

I am not comfortable signing an agreement with the county that could set us up for incurred costs.

Rick Tacy

Health care costs have skyrocketed. A lot of costs have been rising.

Steve Miskin

We have not had tax increases since the 1970s, ... Since then costs on everything have gone up.

Kathleen Kennedy

It costs a lot of money and effort to do this. Most people would opt for a bridging loan.

Melanie Bien

It's all about affordability, ... Health care costs ... will continue to have an impact, even if the economy strengthens.

Paul Fronstin

We're trying to hold down costs.

Frank Thompson

We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere.

Shannon Larocque

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

An available labor pool translates to lower costs.

Brad Martin

This is the amount of money it costs to run our schools.

Jim Ball

You can't just make arbitrary caps without regard to jobs, without regard to costs.

Allan Zaremberg

The amount of mitigation is going to be based on construction costs.

Jonathan Marshall

I am anxious to get more information on the program's expected costs.

Bart Gordon

We know it costs more to get to work but also it costs more for us to make the product.

Paul Howard

What costs the most is the bodies; disposal of the bodies. Maybe we could get it cheaper.

Jo Guertin

It is just the actual fuel costs.

Don Turner

But there?s no way it will cover the costs of the whole salvage operation.

John Fish

We had to continue to recoup our legal costs; it was a return on investments.

Sue Smith

Unanticipated rise in fuel costs.

Patrick Thomas

It's going to have a significant impact on their costs.

Jay Mcintosh

It's not cheap, I can tell you that. We never talk about costs.

Heine Roikjer

The underlying profitability of the business has been adversely affected by increasing mine costs and increasing borrowing costs.

Tony Palmer

These costs do add up over time.

Joel Dickson

There will be some upfront costs. But in the end, it will save money.

David Simpson

We always use the transition to cut costs and align our teams to the new priorities. We've been in this place before.

Trudy Muller

It's really not that surprising that the cost went up because construction costs such as concrete have increased so much.

Susan Harris

It costs $55 to $60 to ship each box.

Butch Klein

You'll probably save 20 percent on the costs, but you'll work very hard for that 20 percent.

Rev. Steve Thomason

The banking community has to control costs and one of those costs - it's a very serious cost - is the cost of fraud.

Alan Brill

We are not charging for them but there are costs associated with them.

Bereket Selassie

We know what the American system costs their economy, and that is one import we can really do without.

Joelle Simon

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

John Pierpont Morgan

It's very hard to pass along those costs to our customers. It's just something you have to absorb. But you can only absorb so much.

Richard Schwartz

We have to work to try to help control those increases and costs.

George Mcgrath

This sets up all the wrong incentives for the company to cut corners, cut costs, without the fear there will be a lot of consequences for them.

David Fathi

The fact of the matter is, our costs are not held constant.

Summer Minnick

Hope costs nothing.

Colette

What they have that a lot of the other top revenue teams don't have is control of player costs.

Kurt Badenhausen

Our fuel costs remain a real burden.

Martin George

The reason is the costs for big trials went down.

Gary Hutchison

Enrollment at all costs is not valuable.

Trace Urdan

Soybean cyst nematode really costs us.

Palle Pedersen

The distance is nothing it is only the first step that costs.

Madame Marie Du Deffand

Why anybody would want them to be able to shed plans and lower their costs is beyond me.

Duane Woerth

To me it really shows that labor costs are under control.

Gary Wolfer

Our commitment is to try to keep people's out-of-pocket costs no more than what it was under DEL.

Jude Walsh

The things that have been accepted in recent years have been the ones that cut costs for producers. That will continue to be a trend.

Barry Nelson

We will be aggressive. We will address costs. We will address our footprint as a business. We will address capacity.

Jim Padilla

You'll have control over your occupancy costs. You can't be put out of business by your landlord.

Barbara Morrison

We have to be careful about the administrative costs of bureaucracy ... if we expect to compete in the global marketplace.

Jim Owens

Yes, the costs are going up.

Becky Bailey

We have to be very aggressive in terms of controlling costs.

Jim Padilla

The sooner we can build a permanent building, the better it is. As with all things, construction costs go up.

Patrick Taylor

The world is watching and will not tolerate backsliding and bickering that costs lives.

Bernice Romero

We need to look at the costs.

John Pinzl

Nor can medical schools charge what it costs to train a physician.

Carolyn Williams

The military is helping us greatly with the distribution costs.

Andrew Babcock

I didn't inquire about any costs. If I did that, I wouldn't have had time to raise money.

David Rosen

Pumping water costs money.

Bill Walker

Clearly, the costs of compliance are disproportionate to small companies. It's causing people to avoid the U.S. capital markets.

David Weild

In the long run it's something everybody will be doing because it reduces costs.

John Bogle

There will be extra costs.

Mary Tiede Wilhelmus

Providing clothing, cleaning up, providing hot meals, providing shelter - all of that costs.

Donna Perry

Energy costs have risen faster than anybody had expected.

Franklin Morton

Time is of the essence. The city is committed to beginning the project in May to avoid additional escalation in construction costs.

Ruth Pratt

This is very preliminary but we are serious. We need to find a way to control our costs to stay competitive.

Justin Bradley

It's just a cost we're all going to have to to bear, ... We're doing what we can to curb costs.

Michael Hensley

We're not saying, 'Don't buy hybrids,' just know what the costs are.

Jeff Blyskal

It just raises all your costs.

John Baillie

We are seeing those costs coming through.

Stephen Harvey

Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years.

Amanda Austin

We pay all of the costs a business has to pay. We're self-supporting.

Jack Vaughn

We do believe that very quickly we can get down to the same costs as offshore wind.

Martin Wright

The reality is it costs a lot of money.

Jack Vance

Heating costs are rising and the temperature is falling.

Rush Holt

There are these hidden costs that are almost always borne by the low classes. It can take you half a day to get from here to Virginia Beach.

Tim Roberts

There's no good answer. This costs money.

Dale Mitchell

This will . . . have huge economic costs for very little gain.

Frank Maisano

If it costs $50 to renovate it, it would be too much. That building has been a disaster from the beginning.

Ralph Moore

What that means is those costs are being passed down to our children - with interest.

Brian M. Riedl

We would have similar costs with a new building. You're still going to have pest control.

Terry Clark

It isn't success if it costs you the companionship and chumminess and love of your children.

Barry C. Forbes

But steel prices went crazy, and so did our costs.

John Cutt

The exponential costs of Medicaid are increasing at a rate they probably can't afford.

Carl Homer

It costs too much to retrofit. It's better to build a new hospital with state-of-the-art equipment.

David Burns

It's unfair to continue tapping the student for unreasonable costs.

Bruce Christianson

That means that at the end of the day, you have a brain that costs you more energy. That's where sleep would kick in.

Giulio Tononi

Oil is the biggest challenge for the company. About 30 to 40 percent of the company's operational costs is oil.

Sukbir Khanijoh

We're being killed with these legal costs. This is supposed to carry us to the end of this year.

Sue Smith

We are here to provide a service, but the more we run the more it costs taxpayers.

Chief Gary Ogden

Costs are going up. Its costs money to recycle.

Mary Fox

We're lowering costs in our East Coast shuttle markets.

Phil Gee

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Kay Runge

None of it really costs anything - other than owning a home.

Bob Garner

We'll try to recoup whatever it costs.

Jon Allen

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

Quintilian

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Sir Winston Churchill

They're going to have to reduce costs by 10 percent to 15 percent.

Darryl Jenkins

Besides the human costs, it is a very expensive disease.

Stephanie Nelson

We need more than $5 million because construction costs have gone up.

Brenda Keeler

When all the dust settled, we got both our projects. We got both interchanges without any additional costs.

Jerry Dittman

Costs have been pretty much cut to the bone.

Christian Guerra

It costs more to do business in certain parts of the state.

Cathy Johnson

Each car costs approximately $60.

Barry Caskey

They're pretty much avoiding America West at all costs and trying to go with other airlines.

Amy Wright

The city of Calera has absorbed the increase of gas prices to help keep costs low for its citizens.

Joe Phillips

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We needed to get the fee in line with the costs. At $215, it's still a bargain.

Tim Slone

There may continue to have been some pressure both from fuel and on paper costs.

Janna Sampson

You're in an environment where initially those costs are not as they were before.

James Malone

You have to see how much (it costs) to prevent, versus how much you actually lose.

Mike Delahanty

We buy the components and do the assembly ourselves, which lowers costs. AMD fit in well within that way of operating.

Robert Miggins

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

James Mchugh

Companies did a pretty good job of cutting costs.

Nick Raich

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

Marilyn Rush

The idea here is accessibility with no records. Anonymity at all costs.

Tom Cash

The benefit will be much less than the political costs.

Amanullah Khan

We will still be very, very, competitive and the same goes for our costs to customers.

Steve Toler

In two years, it will cost half of what it costs today to do payment and billing.

Shelly Smith