Paid Quotes · Page 75

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

The Rockets paid a healthy price for Chris Paul.

— Lou Williams

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

— Ted Williams

I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better…

— Jim Edmonds

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be…

— Iain Sinclair

The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to…

— Charlie Munger

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something…

— Mathew Baynton

There was actually a camera on your face. I don't know so much about the animation process but the camera was in…

— Ashley Jensen

What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having…

— Ian Astbury

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest…

— Michael Bennet

Find something that you want to do when you're 60. Find your passion. Your passion, your work, whatever it is that you…

— Pauly Shore

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.…

— Wendell Berry

It's always nice to be paid to be in Las Vegas.

— Iliza Shlesinger

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little…

— Frank Langella

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to…

— Sarah Palin

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

— Jeanette Winterson

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for…

— A. N. Wilson

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

— Chico Resch

My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I…

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

— Lawrence Lessig

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

— Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was…

— Chuck Inglish

It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two Avon books…

— Virginia Henley