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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.
I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.
Youth should have access to paid internships or jobs year-round, so they can keep developing important skills and earning income.
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.
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.
The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.
In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.
The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
You know, 'Paid in Full' is a classic album, man. It kind of got me to where I am now, so I can never get tired of 'Paid in Full.'
It's definitely fun when you're able to translate your practice into the game. It's fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid.
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.
I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.
I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
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 went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.
Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
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 had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.
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.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
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.
Whether you're a man or a woman - whatever your gender - if you're doing a job, and you're doing it well, you should be paid accordingly.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.
Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'
How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.
I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
We get paid based on where we are in the Constructors' Championship so therefore we want the fastest and best drivers we can get in the car.
Doctors and hospitals should be paid for keeping their patients well. Paying them for doing more tests and surgeries creates bad incentives.
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.