I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect – it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
There’s a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what’s happening on streaming services.
Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don’t go anywhere, but you still get paid.
There’s far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don’t realize. It’s not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There’s a lot of things that you have to deal with.
We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that’s why most Americans are saying, ‘Look, let’s just be honest. Let’s have lower rates, but everybody pays them.’
I went to prison, I paid my bill.
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.
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government’s money. it’s your money. You paid for it.
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell. Your workers don’t want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That’s inflation.
One thing I am really dying to do, while I’m still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that’s really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.
We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient’s point of view, that’s zero.
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge – like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I’d go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can’t do better, so be it.
People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
My father was an autodidact. It wasn’t a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn’t allowed to go.
I should be paid to go out. You see, I’m good for business. I class up a joint.
Social Security, for example – I’m 43. I’ve paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security – they’ve got to continue to receive it. They’re dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.
I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn’t have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it’s all very confusing.
Living in Washington, you can’t take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don’t believe because they get paid to.
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.
Since becoming a BBC breakfast presenter I have been paid four-figure sums for doing hour-long speeches for associations and at awards dinners. That has been an eye-opener. I am surprised by how much people are willing to pay TV celebrities to do that kind of stuff.
I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it’s just about projects that turn me on.
In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren’t there when I came back. It’s like, ‘Wait a second – what happened here?’ It was a real learning experience. I’ve paid my dues, I will tell you that.
If I don’t get paid I’m going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.
Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray’s Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.
I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.
