Paid Quotes

I'm happy to be making my first appearance on air professionally. By that I mean I'm finally getting paid, which I know will be a great relief to my creditors.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

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!

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

The only way to earn what you're really worth is to get paid based on your results.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?