Paid Quotes - Page 2

• I'm happy to be making my first appearance on air professionally. By that I mean I'm finally getting paid, which I know will be a great relief to my creditors.

  Jack Benny

  Mean, Air, Relief

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• I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

  Paula Poundstone

  Children, Mistake, Law

  "Poundstone Regains Custody of Adopted Children", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2002.

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• In 2013 Citigroup had profits of $6.4 billion in the United States. They paid no federal income tax and, in fact, received a rebate from the IRS of $260 million. That same year J.P. Morgan had $17.2 billion in profits in the U.S. They also paid no federal income tax. Do you think it's time for tax reform?

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Years, United States

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• I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

  Dat Phan

  Jobs, Shopping, Two

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• Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid.

  Chris Hardwick

  Xbox, Two, Hours

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• I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Two, Police

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• When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's a business, and I get to do the fun half of it. I get paid to pretend. I get to play really great characters. And, we have such a wonderful writer. She just knows people so intricately, and it's so fun to be able to act out her words.

  Angie Harmon

  Fun, Character, Play

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

  Shelley Berman

  Men, Talking, Cost

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• It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Littles, Matter

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

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• When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

  Henry Rollins

  Cynical, Shooting, Matter

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• I was an actor in college and it was much easier than being a waiter. I thought it was fun to get paid. People were not exactly surprised to see me going in the field.

  Dom Irrera

  Fun, College, People

  "Dom Irrera Dominating Stand-Up". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

  Busy Philipps

  Husband, Writing, Desire

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?

  Henny Youngman

  Idiot

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures.

  Michael Lesy

  Jobs, Ideas, Would Be

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. September 16, 2003.

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• We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

  Warren Buffett

  Busy, Being Busy

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• If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Would Be, Pay

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• Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's power to take the crowd wherever I want them to go. I love it when they laugh, especially when they relate through laughter. It's a beautiful thing. It also means I'm going to get paid, which is nice.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Beautiful, Laughter, Nice

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• Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.

  Andy Kindler

  White, People, Challenges

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• New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary.

  Colin Quinn

  New York, Chocolate, Three

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• There's little things like that, that we paid a lot of attention to. We don't always know how to bond together to get help or to do something, and our attempts are often awkward, selfish or weird. We talked a lot about how to open things up.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Selfish, Awkward, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.

  Eric Balfour

  Attention, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

  Richard Pryor

  Dues

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• I get paid very well for an amazing, amazing life. I'm blessed.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Blessed, Amazing Life, Wells

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• After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.

  Joe Bastianich

  War, Cities, People

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• I expect to get paid if I do something.

  Evan Goldberg

  Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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