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“If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field, and in the clubhouse, I'm doing what I'm paid to do, what I love to do, and man, I hate it when I fail.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Hate Failing Fields Baseball I Hate Paid Know Me Get To Know Me Baseball Field

Author:Jeff Kent

“I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it.”

Play Games Paid

Author:Mark Mulder

“Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich”

Shows Games Numbers Rich Lucky Sitting Paid Betting Become Rich Game Shows

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.”

Talking Minutes Paid Valuable Valuable Things

Book:The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking

Source: The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking

“As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.”

Way Paid Journalist New Ways

Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.”

Courses Father Paid Soldier Ill Selling Borders Drivers Vegetables Crossings Old Lady Dividends Waitress Notorious Haughty Ill Tempered Rickshaw

Author:Scott Anderson

“Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.”

Bigs Next Practice Generations Dangerous Standing Army Paid Spending Stealing Next Generation Borrowing Spending Money

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.”

People Art Book Paid Maps Instruction Innovative

Author:Seth Godin

“I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.”

Made Games Decision Company Millions Paid Shoes Billions Dumb Zero Dumb Decisions

Author:Warren Buffett

“Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.”

Giving Should Littles Difficult Goal Effort Achieve Paid Satisfaction Significance Worthwhile Appreciated Personal Satisfaction

Author:John Wooden

“The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.”

Ifs Way Writing Believe Can Do Written Paid Pressure Driven Great Things Therapy Make Believe Antisocial

Author:Stephen King

“You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems.”

Problem Ability Paid Solve Consistent

Author:Ron Willingham

“For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.”

Fans Paid Institutions Rings Sportsmanship

Author:Mike Tyson

“It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it.”

Mean Doe Left Wish Fans Football Proud Cost Paid Bills Clubs Soccer Owners Be Proud Scotland Identification Humiliating Celtic

Author:Fergus McCann

“Never forget that I am paid for my troubles!”

Forget Trouble Paid Never Forget

Author:Hank Stuever

“No matter what you set out to do and how you set out to do it, you ultimately have to be who you are, and who you are as that character. So, I paid as much homage as I could to what Michael Clarke did, and had to rely on my own gifts to guide me through it.”

Matter Character My Own Paid No Matter What Who You Are Guides Rely Homage Be Who You Are Guide Me

Author:Dennis Haysbert

“I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.”

Firsts Country Done Play Whole Running Wanted Jobs Parent Records Happened Paid Dancing Lawyer Dancer Engagement Running Away Vocation Darling Furious Accountants

Author:Bruno Tonioli

“Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.”

Heart Art Choices Three Fronts Tvs Directors Paid Independent Studios Hopefully Paychecks Sundance

Author:Jason Blum

“There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.”

People Groups Industry Paid Kitchen Restaurants Lowest Distribution Equitable

Author:Mario Batali

“I won't even take jobs where you get paid to sit with a group of friends and party. That's never been my vibe.”

Jobs Party Groups Paid Group Of Friends

Author:Taryn Manning

“[Sasha] for me it was a dream. I got to tell everybody where to go and how fast to get there. It was very exciting. It was still an Aaron Spelling show, with the hair and make-up and everything, but there were also motorcycles. For my life, at that time, it was such a perfect thing. I had all this inner anger to get out, and it was so exciting to get paid to do it. She had anger and sexuality and rebellion, but there was still that very sweet core. I didn't have to be something entirely unrecognizable or un-relatable. I just loved her to death.”

Stills Shows Dream Perfect Sweet Hair Exciting Paid Sexuality Core Rebellion Relatable Motorcycle Spelling Very Sweet Perfect Things

Author:Brigid Brannagh

“What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.”

Men Want Years Two Hundred Paid Golf Rate British Winner Retiring Prestige

Author:Sam Snead

“London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.”

Pay Cities Huge Fine Grew Paid London Contradictory Good Place

Book:Neverwhere: A Novel

Source: Neverwhere: A Novel

“I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.”

Might School Film Left Week Drama Paid Lots Of Money

Author:John Hurt

“My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?”

Kids Used Asks Pay Son Dad Paid My Dad Checks

Author:Larry Holmes

“Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.”

Ifs Paid Debt Creditors Debtors

Author:James Grant

“To win you must pay the price. If you haven't won you haven't paid the price.”

Ifs Winning Pay Havens Paid Pay The Price

Author:Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

“Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Jobs Guy Company Leader Millions Paid Dollars Coaches Dumb Executives Scandal Just Saying Enron Enron Scandal

Author:Bo Schembechler

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

Comfort Paid Add Luxury Articles Consumption Revenue

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.”

Taxes Paid Goods Household

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?”

Years Has Beens Enough Return Higher Paid Workers Wages Coming Back Monetary Monetary System

Author:Jacque Fresco

“If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.”

Ifs Attention Losing Paid Fascinating Farmers Dentist Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.”

“Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.”

Should Sound Attention Criticism Paid Crafts Alarms Adverse

Author:Dorothy Salisbury Davis

“I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.”

Want Firsts Mean Age School Worry Concepts First Time Paid What You Want Retirement Retired Always Believe Doing What You Want

Author:Tommy Chong

“The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work is done because of a love of the cause. And as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.”

People Done Given Grows Causes Church Effort Sacrifice Share Capacity Paid Burden Clergy

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.”

Drug Paid Including Consumption Dealer Pimp Drug Dealers

Author:Mike Huckabee

“It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.”

Artist Paid Sensitive Jars

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.”

Forever Goes On Paid Debt

Author:Glenn Reynolds

“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”

World Culture Pay This World Paid Good Things Leisure

Book:Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.”

“To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.”

Men Giving Humans Human Beings Opinion Highest Paid Compliment Oxford

Author:William E. Gladstone

“I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.”

Paid Entitled

Author:Frank Lowy

“Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.”

Ifs Voice Paid Cameras Working It Voice Over

Author:Diedrich Bader

“As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.”

Ifs Comfortable Paid Managers Uncomfortable

Author:Peter Drucker

“Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out.”

World Heart Father House Jesus Christ Sin Knowing Saws Cost Jesus Christ Paid Debt Infinity Immensity Purchasing

Book:The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith

Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith

“All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.”

Knows Film Stars Natural Students Highest Cat Paid Disaster Film Stars Disaster Movie

Author:Simon Jenkins

“The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.”

Men Firsts House Prayer Views Pay Practice Week He Man Members Paid Congress Opening Acceptable Amendments Session Violation First Amendment Interruptions Clauses Chaplains

Author:Warren E. Burger

“Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.”

Government Wealth Numbers Members Capable Paid Producers Goods Goods And Services Systems Of Government

Author:Morgan Philpot

“It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.”

People Running Jobs Safe Paid Congress

Author:Barry Goldwater

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