Paid Quotes

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don't actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

You always get paid for how hard you work, but it's not always right away.

My favorite part of theatre is that I get paid for it!

No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.

Whatever you dream is you find a way to get there, even if you're not paid a lot. Do it for the love of what you do.

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

It's never paid to bet against America.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

I've got a grocery bill at the end of every month.Our toothpaste, our orange juice, that all gets paid. But I - it is true that I don't carry my wallet that often.

It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

I was an actor in college and it was much easier than being a waiter. I thought it was fun to get paid. People were not exactly surprised to see me going in the field.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive.

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.