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Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

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

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated.

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

I knew this girl named Tropicana, She's always juicin'. Producing cash for a sexual task. She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat... You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete.

I don't get paid to serve the president. I get paid to serve the public and what I think is in the interest of justice, no matter who the president is.

Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.

I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

[T]he only good loan is one that gets paid back.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

To get paid the best, you must be the best.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.