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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.
Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.
I don't get paid a salary, but I do like to go by private plane because it saves a lot of time and is very efficient.
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
Every actor, male or female, is paid what he or she is worth. There is no inflated sum or underpaying in the industry.
People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.
For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
You definitely see a difference in some guys' games when they do get paid. I'm trying to make sure I'm not that player.
I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.
I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
It's ridiculous that Claire Foy got paid less than Matt Smith on 'The Crown.' That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.
The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.
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 do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.
Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I'm fine with their name being close to ours.
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.
And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.
I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.
Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.
The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.
When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.
I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.
I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
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.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
I'm not as open as I used to be. I'm a little bit more filtered, and it kind of sucks, but it's the price you pay to get paid.
Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.
I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I get paid for it.
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?
There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.