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Tag Name "Paid" (1488)

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CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.
Carl Icahn
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Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.
Felicity Jones
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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.
Bootsy Collins
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The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.
Eric Ambler
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We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
Andy Partridge
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I think I grew up really fast I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.
Alicia Keys
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My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. If I were to get paid a million, I'd feel that I should sweep out the stadium every night after I finished playing the game.
Duke Snider
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The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.
Dennis Prager
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I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.
Barry Blitt
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The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
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It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it.
Fergus McCann
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Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.
Breaux Greer
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I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.
Eric Bristow
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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.
Andy Rooney
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America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Allen Boyd
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I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)
Eddie Adams
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For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.
Dennis Rodman
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People have paid for content. They always have.
Barry Diller
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When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
Anthony Bourdain
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My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.
Caroline Wozniacki
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Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
Brendan Fraser
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That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.
Eric Heisserer
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You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.
Andy Stanley
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