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I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.

I'm sorry I thought I paid my bill. I was wrong.

My account is paid up. Your records are wrong.

This customer service person doesn't understand that this bill was paid and I am not going to pay it again.

I paid my bill. Let me speak to your supervisor!

People don't need to be paid to be motivated.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.

Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

Faith is not the price that buys God's blessing, it is the hand that receives His blessing. The price was paid for us by Jesus Christ on the cross

In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

I get paid to not laugh.

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way, and I see that the hard work has finally paid off.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

I get paid to make out with the hunks!

The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.

In fact, I think 500 years from now, the two Americans so far who will be remembered are George Washington and Neil Armstrong, who, amazingly hasn't been paid very much attention.

I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that's a great investment.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

That's one thing about me: I'm not greedy. I buy things for my friends if I buy them for myself. I make sure my friend's rent is paid.

I'm cold gettin' paid cause Rick said so.