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When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself.

I was the happiest and highest paid straight woman in the business.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I don't need to get paid. I just wanna open. I just wanna get in front of new people.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

It's your money. You paid for it.

To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.

Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.

A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.

Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

If you're fortunate to have talent and getting paid for something you love doing. All you've got to do is perform for 90 minutes.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.