Paid Quotes · Page 25

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

— Marlene Dietrich

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.

— Alain de Botton

If I'm in the club, I'm getting paid to show up.

— Wiz Khalifa

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

— Betty Wright

You want to be paid. It is your job. It is like anyone else turning up at an office.

— Robert Green

Mistakes were made in my behavior, and I paid for them, as everyone knows.

— Yoav Gallant

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

— Richard O'Brien

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

— Bryan Batt

You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have…

— Sitting Bull

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier…

— George Eliot

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and…

— Zachary Cole Smith

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.

— Samuel Witwer

I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they…

— Paul Kengor

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent…

— David Brooks

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price…

— Michael Chertoff

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I…

— Michael Bond

In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run…

— Anonymous

The fastest I ever did that was when Kill the Moonlight came out after Girls Can Tell, and I remember both labels…

— John Britt Daniel

At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I…

— Andre Previn

The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You…

— Robert Henri

I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work…

— Kirsten Vangsness

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept…

— Vaclav Havel

There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make…

— Vance Havner

You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect…

— Rick Scott

The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let…

— Vladimir Putin

Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions…

— Benjamin Graham

“I paid you five thousand instead and promised the balance only if you made the match. As it turns out, this is…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won.…

— Sterling W Sill

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a…

— Linda Grant

No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some…

— Pam Grier

If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive…

— Angela Merkel

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

— Neil Oliver

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

— Jeff Miller

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

— Sheryl Sandberg

It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.

— Brady Quinn

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

— Jerry Lewis

I should be paid to go out. You see, I'm good for business. I class up a joint.

— Rene Ricard

As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.

— Fat Joe

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

— Bill Maher