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It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

To get paid to play a game I love was enough for me, no matter what the rules were.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

Being on TV and getting everything paid for are the two reasons to do it with us instead of the court of law.

I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

I get paid very well for an amazing, amazing life. I'm blessed.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.

I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.

I expect to get paid if I do something.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.