There’ll always be a difference between a star and an actor. I’ve nothing against stars. They’ve earned it and deserve it. I’m happy being just an actor.
In 1960, I earned my Chemistry Degree from Cornell University.
Yes, I love good clothes, good shoes, but I earned it.
I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
No one can take away what I’ve done in this game. Everything I’ve done, I’ve earned it so far.
When they return home from serving our country, our National Guard and Reserve members shouldn’t have to be confronted with red tape in order to access the benefits they’ve earned fighting for our country.
As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.
Austin Aries, A.J. Styles, and Samoa Joe are all super talented, and all three of them have earned everything they’ve gotten.
I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
Eileen Gu, I think, has had to sacrifice her American passport. So welcome to China. I hope stardom and the riches that you have earned through betraying America are all worth it, because you have definitely sold out.
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven’t.
I don’t envy anybody else’s career because I feel they’ve earned where they’re at and worked hard. I wouldn’t mind Jack White’s gig, though. He does it all!
I don’t like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven’t earned as an actor, performer or director.
Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Earned sick leave gives workers a lot more confidence and adds to their participation in the economy.
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of ‘The Yale Law Journal.’
I have no political weight, and I haven’t earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used.
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn’t find any acting jobs.
As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, ‘Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I’ve earned slightly more wealth.’ I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.
When movement isn’t enough, you dance, or when speaking isn’t enough, you sing. When it’s organic, and it’s earned like that in a musical, that’s when it works, and then there’s nothing like it because it’s this thing that takes you to a whole ‘nother level, you know?
By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it’s not there because I’ve spent it. That’s what it’s there for. I don’t want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
But I don’t pretend I earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Once you’re retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you’re done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance – which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast – takes over.
W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.
Super Bowl XXXII was a victory made long before stepping on that field in San Diego in 1998. It was earned with my brother guiding me as a kid in Glennville, Ga., and as a seventh-round pick out of Savannah State. Even at the pinnacle, that ring was always his.
When I uploaded my very first video, I was just looking for something to make me happy. I was confused about what I was doing in my life and had earned a degree that I didn’t really enjoy. With that video, I was finally doing something I was passionate about. So it was my way of self-medicating.
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn’t feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don’t think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.
I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
While bad cops should face the full consequence of the law, the overwhelming majority of good cops have earned our support.
It’s not normal when you finish playing collegiate ball to be able to jump right into the NFL and work for Jon Gruden. That doesn’t happen if you don’t have your grandfather that has the connections and has earned the respect around this league. And for that, I feel very fortunate.
I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 – not $10,000 – that he would not take the offer.
Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as ‘founding fathers.’
I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I’ve also earned it.
I want to be like an Undertaker and be around so when your music hits, people go crazy because of that respect that you’ve earned over 20, 25 years of going on the ride for them.
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don’t think everyone has earned the microphone. And that’s what the Internet has done.
You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don’t want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
Whether you love him or whether you hate him, Roman Reigns has earned his spot, and I’m hot at all these little crybabies out there going, ‘We just stand up and boo him because we really don’t like him.’ Oh, really?
‘Green Lantern’ I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I’m glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.
There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience – it has to be earned along the way.
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
I used to say in the cabinet room, ‘confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach – you can’t take the top off and swallow it down.’ You know, confidence has to be earned.
I’ve earned every wrinkle on my face. I actually like my wrinkles. And guess what? There are a lot of 60-year-old men who have wrinkles, no hair, glasses, and nobody gives a damn.
I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I’ve earned my own money; I’ve traveled the world. What would I rebel against?
Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie’s novel ‘Fury’ earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn’t share the stage with me.
