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Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.”

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Author:Bill Burr

“If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“If you're getting paid more than me, I'm definitely more excited about this ass whoopin I'm gonna put down on you.”

Ifs Paid Excited Ass

Author:Nick Diaz

“If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.”

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Author:Katharine Hepburn

“The top stars like Angelina, Cameron (Diaz), Sandra Bullock and probably now Jennifer Lawrence probably gets paid the same as their male counterparts. The problem is the averages. Because there are not enough parts for women to star in and get paid. So when you look at the total amount women make as compared to men it's paltry.”

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Author:Amy Pascal

“I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Wells Littles Secret Talking Known Paid Dirty Divided Feeding Interconnected Insiders Trough

Author:Mark Leibovich

“If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.”

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Author:Frank Deford

“When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than from so-called "Ivy League" education that I knew it was on me to keep myself stimulated, and to keep learning, more than anything. And, because I paid my way through college, I was working at Penn, two to four jobs at a time to pay for school.”

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Author:Maria Popova

“Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.”

People Thinking Reason Paid Intention Attractive Wealthy Lots Of Money Collectors Artwork Catering

Author:Robert Crumb

“Parents' work has shifted markedly around the world - and that goes for every region. Men in particular have been moving away from farmed-based work, and into industrial and post-industrial work - so they've moved away from the home. Women, likewise, have moved into the paid labor force and away from the home.”

Men World Has Beens Home Moving Force Parent Particular Labor Paid Moved Around The World Posts Regions Moving Away Labor Force

Author:Jody Heymann

“If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.”

Ifs Stage Paid

Author:Ted Alexandro

“When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.”

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Author:Pharoahe Monch

“I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.”

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Author:Cass McCombs

“We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.”

Deals Paid Clubs Owners Prestige

Author:Judy Holliday

“Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.'”

People Looks Heart May Mean Dream Habit One Day Paid Disappointment Hardship

Book:Adultery: A novel

Source: Adultery: A novel

“How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.”

Ifs Men Believe Would Be I Believe Paid Regard Friendly Honour Remedy

Book:The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

“Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.”

Ifs Might Certain Company Paid Investigation You Re Pretty

Author:Kris Dunn

“In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, Where is my food?”

Firsts Government Running Week Paid Asking China Cooks Bus Iowa Dormitory

Author:Li Ang

“I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel.”

People Teacher Highest Paid Israel

Author:Arnon Milchan

“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.”

“I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.”

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Author:Christian Kane

“Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.”

Remember Performances Paid Active Managers Alphas Beta

Author:Paul McCulley

“There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.”

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Book:The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built

Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built

“If I weren’t getting paid or didn’t have a character like Wolverine to maintain, I would just be a tall, lean, fit guy.”

Ifs Character Guy Fit Paid Tall

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I loved to always get naked. I was very free, so I thought, I may as well get paid.”

Wells May Paid Naked

Author:Chris Pratt

“You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.”

Littles Feelings Paid Resentment

Book:The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path

Source: The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path

“I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.”

Eye My Own Paid