Paid Quotes · Page 17

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

— Brigid Schulte

A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And,…

— Trevor Noah

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid…

— Taslima Nasrin

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

— Rebecca Mader

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

— Gary Johnson

Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service…

— Carl Baugh

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence…

— Bassem Youssef

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation…

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

One of the things that I loved about when I met my husband was that he picked me up and he paid…

— Sutton Foster

Service Over the years, the number one driver of our growth at Zappos has been repeat customers and word of mouth. Our…

— Tony Hsieh

There's little things like that, that we paid a lot of attention to. We don't always know how to bond together to…

— Remi Aubuchon

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see…

— Lee Pace

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece…

— Theodore Sturgeon

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming…

— Suze Orman

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show…

— Florence Welch

When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their…

— Mary Ruwart

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

— Thomas Jefferson

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…

— Larry Wall

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

— Jimmy Iovine

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same,…

— John Dos Passos

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

— May Sarton

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

— William Saroyan

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz