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• Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

  Elizabeth Pena

  Faces, Directors, Roles

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• The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

  Billy Zane

  Acting, Would Be, Tools

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• We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

  George Saunders

  Character, Order, Rivers

  "George Saunders’s Wild Ride" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.

  Tommy Lee

  Attitude, Kind, Ifs

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• I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality and your looks are just a big bonus.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Crush, Romantic Love, Personality

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• If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

  Sam Brownback

  Talking, People, Giving

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• Just to love, that's enough; being loved, that's a bonus.

  Jack Hyles

  Enough, Being Loved

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• One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from May 21, 2012

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• When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wise, Insightful, Feels Right

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

  Trey Gowdy

  Jobs, Judging, Great Job

  "Bonuses give taxpayers $70 million more reasons to hate the IRS". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Years, Debt, Four

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• If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why, Klingenschmitt asked, on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Giving, Insane, Employment

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• Working with an incredibly strong script is the thing that gives you the most confidence. If you go into an episode knowing the script is strong, I just feel like that's where it all starts. All collaborations that happen, in addition to that, are just bonuses, at that point.

  Ty Burrell

  Strong, Knowing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

  Patrick Geddes

  Successful, Simple, Average

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• Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us. Our real targets always were the inner cities.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Real, War, Cities

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• Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

  Thomas Frank

  Kings, Wall, Years

  "Wall Street Bonuses Are an Outrage" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2009.

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• I hope I become a better player day after day. This is one of my goals. I want to improve in every situation, but when you are playing along with top figures, it is a quality bonus and a bigger effort. Besides, the Spanish Liga also gives you the chance to progress and improve.

  David Beckham

  Player, Giving, Goal

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• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Years, Nfl

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I don't think bonuses are always bad.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Thinking

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• Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Husband, Years

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• I was skiing fast in training, but that really doesn't count for anything until you actually do it in a race. So to finally get to prove how fast you are skiing is an added bonus that goes along with winning the first race of the year. Any race win is a good win. I don't really care where it is. I've been on the podium a bunch of times here, but it's always good for your confidence to start off the year with a victory.

  Ted Ligety

  Winning, Race, Years

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• A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, True Life, Floating

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• Joe Lauzon is not seen as the top guy in his division, He's not the champion. Do you know how many people go f--- crazy when I saw Joe Lauzon is on the card? Because people love to watch him fight. Joe Lauzon has won more fighter bonuses than I think anybody. If you are that guy, the system works for you. But if you are not that guy, then boo f--- hoo, you don't matter.

  Dana White

  Crazy, Fighting, Thinking

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• Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Views, Rest Of Your Life, Moments

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• My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Jobs, Hands, Issues

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