“The best unpaid sex, where you and the woman are really into each other, and there's a lot of really intense passion, and things are really hot between you...I've never had that kind of sex when I was paying for it. The best unpaid sex is going to be, I think, more passionate and more hot than the best paid sex.” ThinkingKindPassionSexPaidHotPassionateIntense Author:Chester Brown
“The best paid sex can still be really great and really intense, but, you know, without the emotional passion there, it's not going to be quite at the same level as the best unpaid sex.” KnowsStillsPassionSexLevelsEmotionalPaidIntenseReally Great Author:Chester Brown
“People can't bear the idea that I could be sexual and provocative, and still be a nice person with a nice family and a nice husband, and have a career that could work, and be paid a certain amount of money.” PeoplePersonsStillsIdeasCertainCareersNiceBearsAmountHusbandPaidProvocativeNice PersonNice Family Author:Demi Moore
“We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.” PeopleWayEndsGovernmentIndividualSocialInterestAcceptingTechnologyDemocracyRichIndustryBalanceCitizensCapitalismPaidProfitEmploymentRadicalLiberalismTransitionIntuitivePrivate SectorComing To An EndSocial Democracy Author:Irvine Welsh
“A lot of bands are going out and playing for nothing. A lot of bands will go out and get paid, but the gas tank will eat up their paycheck. When they manage to sell a t-shirt or two, there is a little bit of leftover money there so that they don't have to have McDonalds that day. They can actually eat something decent with possibly a bit of cash leftover. It's a huge part of the business now.” LittlesTwoBitsHugeBandLittle BitPaidSellsManageShirtsDecentGasCashGoing OutT ShirtTanksMcdonaldsPaychecks Author:Matt Snell
“Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if they're not getting the minimum wage. And so a lot of times companies prefer to hire them in order to take advantage of them. We've got to crack down on those employers.” IfsLawOrderCompanyAdvantagePaidSafetyWorkersReportsCracksMinimumEmployersMinimum WageHealth And SafetyUndocumented Workers Author:Barack Obama
“You just overwhelm the system with so many dependents and so many middle class benefits having to be paid that the money isn't there. It causes a system-wide collapse, capitalism implodes upon itself, and somebody comes into the breach and restructures the government as a socialist utopian paradise - and the guy's dead serious about it.” GovernmentGuyCausesClassMiddleSeriousBenefitsCapitalismPaidWideParadiseMiddle ClassCollapseSocialistUtopianBreachRestructure Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We've discussed the public sector union people. We are messing with their bread and butter. They have their hands in the treasuries of all states in which they operate and the US Treasury. They have their hands there. That's how they live. Now, we're broke and the states are broke for a multitude of reasons. What they're being paid is among them.” PeopleStatesReasonHandsPaidUnionsBreadBrokeMultitudesTreasuryBread And ButterPublic SectorAll StateUs Treasury Author:Rush Limbaugh
“At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.” SoulWantedJobsHoursDoorsWorstDiseasePaidUniversitySellingDestroyingSexuallyReceptionClinicPart TimePart Time JobsSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Kate Thornton
“Someone has to really like you to go out there and physically get your CD. Shout out to everybody who actually paid for the CD. A lot of people don't realize that's how we live, that's our job. When we people take music from us, that's just like taking food off of our table and it's not cool. It's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that goes into the music and those lyrics. To have people just go and steal it, it doesn't feel well.” PeopleFeelsWellsJobsRealizingBloodTearsLike YouPaidTablesStealingSweatCdsSweat And TearsShout OutBlood Sweat And TearsReally Like You Author:Ginuwine
“So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.” PeopleLyingGuyFoundStuffCitiesViolenceHeardMiddlePaidCopSuperhumanSirensPeople LieLarge CitiesSuperhuman Powers Author:William H. Macy
“Iceland's Women's Day Off in 1975 saw 90% of Icelandic women take time off from their paid and unpaid work, an experience that not only showed women how much they contribute but turned Icelandic men into supporters of gender equality. I aim to achieve the same impact in the UK.” MenSawsAchievePaidAimImpactGenderTake TimeSupporterGender EqualityTime OffDays OffIceland Author:Catherine Mayer
“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.” ShouldCareChildhoodPolicyProduceTaxesTrainingPaidInvestmentIncludingCreditGoodsWagesParentalEarly ChildhoodCaregiversCaregivingEarly Childhood Education Author:Riane Eisler
“The right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for, rent-a-mob type activity.” LeftCareersTypeActivityPaidProtestMarchTime Off Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.” IfsLongHappensJobsTermPrinciplesRiskPaidBillsAssumingInvestmentProfitDecadesLong TermPocketsGatesZeroCapitalistTaxpayersPublic Sector Author:Noam Chomsky
“The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.” MenShouldChildrenEndsFactsProblemJobsRolesConcernNegativeFemalePaidImpactCaringAcceptedExplanationWagesHaving ChildrenPart TimePositive ImpactPressured Author:Laura Bates
“The Million Man March was held on a Monday. Most marches were always held on a weekend and most marches were paid for by philanthropic groups and organizations and labor unions, etc. So, the people who came did not necessarily have to make a great sacrifice to be there.” PeopleMenMillionsSacrificeGroupsLaborOrganizationPaidUnionsEtcMarchWeekendMondayPhilanthropicLabor UnionGreat Sacrifice Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.” HateI HatePaidBoatUncomfortableLove MakingBeing Famous Author:Kenny Chesney
“With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the cost of production to all. Here, the cruel injustice of preventing the poor from buying at cost - evidenced by today's suppression of the trade in generic versions of patented medicines - would no longer be needed.” TodayPoorProductsNeededCostPaidInnovationTradeImpactMedicineRewardsInjusticeProductionsVersionsBuyingFundPreventingSuppressionGeneric Author:Thomas Pogge
“If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.” IfsWayDifferentCountryWould BeCompanyStepsProductsPaidImpactPatientMarketingMedicalImprovementInventionFundConceptionApprovalTestingPrescriptionsClinicalsDifferent CountriesPipelineOptimalRetailers Author:Thomas Pogge
“In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.” WorldRealReasonDoneHumanityGivenWaterAcceptingDemocracyTakenResourcesPaidCrisisMajorityEnvironmentalWesternComparisonCubaBourgeoisPrecariousMilitarismGreat BusinessPandemicsReal TruthEnvironmental CrisisParticipatory DemocracyWater Crisis Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.” WorldKindDoneDestinySpecialDangerousMetsConscienceFunctionPaidMajorityLuxuryIslamicReachingAlsVery HappySufiAntithesisExecutionersWorldliness Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.” SelfLife IsDisciplinePaidSelf Discipline Author:Eric Heisserer
“The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid a living wage and enabled a family to have a home where the wife did not have to work. But we sent our factories abroad and there is no likelihood of getting them back. Equally worrisome is that some managerial jobs and professional jobs (such as lawyers) which support middle class life are threatened by automation.” Has BeensHomeJobsClassSupportWifeMiddlePaidSizeLawyerMiddle ClassFactoriesThreatenedWagesStagnantLikelihoodShrinkingAutomationLiving WageMiddle Class Life Author:Philip Kotler
“If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.” IfsMenWorldFeelsStillsAmericaSocialTalkingHigherAuthorityIntellectualFemalePaidMalesFinalsEducatedThreatenedBetter OffSexuallyBusiness WorldWomen EqualityFinal WordsSocial Equality Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“The Russians are succeeding in continuing their dismemberment of Ukraine, they're succeeding in exerting enormous influence in the Middle East, which they never had before. They are succeeding - they have succeeded in interfering with our election, and we know that they continue that in the French elections and other elections. And so far they have paid a little or no penalty for all of this misbehavior.” KnowsLittlesInfluenceMiddleSucceedPaidElectionEastEnormousMiddle EastContinuingPenaltiesInterfereUkraine Author:John McCain
“I think we go wrong when we insist, as some have done since 1945, on using experts who are paid Western salaries, drive beautiful cars and live in air-conditioned houses to teach people in the Third World how to improve their living conditions.” PeopleThinkingWorldDoneBeautifulHouseTeachAirConditionsCarThirdsPaidWesternExpertsSalaryThird WorldLiving Conditions Author:Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
“It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.” ThinkingI CanReasonFiguresCreaturesUnderstoodPaidSpeciesObligationPenaltiesBiologist Author:Wendell Berry
“I paid attention to not being a comedian, and just concentrated on being who I was. That is what you have to do. If you say you are a comedian that has been done before. If you just be who you are then you are unique. Everyone is unique.” IfsHas BeensDoneAttentionUniquePaidWho You AreComedianBe Who You Are Author:Rita Rudner
“In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can be as a journalist. I attribute some of this success to my ability to haggle. The main thing in this game is to ask for money and when they tell you the amount you say, "no, I want more".” WantWritingWellsTwoAsksGamesTermAbilityAmountPaidJournalistExceptionAttributesColumns Author:Giles Coren
“If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.” IfsWayLittlesMomentsFeelingsSeemsDesireVoiceActingAttentionDoubtHavensFiguresParticularAdultsShadowPaidBarsAddressesCandyActing OutCandy Bar Author:Danny Boyle
“What you have to remember, when you get to the level of seeing 10,000 people a night, is that they've all paid to have a performance. I need to make sure that they get their money's worth. I don't want to be going on stage and saying, "I'm just going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter," because it does matter.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsTryingDoeMatterRememberNightStuffLevelsSeeingStagePerformancesPaidWorking ItRemember When Author:John Bishop
“Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.” JobsFunActingPaidVacationReally GreatBest Job Author:Bob Odenkirk
“I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't.” FeelsResponsibilityReaderStandardsPaidAppropriateBetrayedTrust MeDouble StandardUnfaithful Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalists being paid - but a lot of people are acting for something other than financial compensation. So if the tar sands pipeline doesn't get made, it's because a huge amount of people are doing something that doesn't involve remuneration, money, etc., because we're not actually the self-interested financial instruments that economists like to imagine we are.” PeopleIfsKnowsMadeSelfActingImagineHugeAmountPaidInstrumentsFinancialOilMade ItCorporationsSandEtcLots Of MoneyEconomistCompensationEnvironmentalistPipelineRemuneration Author:Rebecca Solnit
“The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism is operated by extracting money, not so much directly being paid.” PeopleKnowsSufferingPoorCapitalismPaidLoanMortgage Author:David Graeber
“If you look at the parts I've played and the movies I've done... I mean you have to work with the stereotype. The stereotype gets you paid, it gets you in the business. If they're looking for a white housewife, they're going to go for Joan Cusack.” IfsLooksMeanDoneWhitePaidStereotypeHousewife Author:Terry Crews
“I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.” WorldWellsStillsPlayUseProblemRunningThreeGamesGivenFunHoursIssuesToo MuchFootballDrugHollywoodPaidYeahCoachesHaving FunBest ThingsSundayBad ThingsGood LifeAmbitiousOwnershipQuarterbackPlaying FootballDrug UseRunning Back Author:Terry Crews
“And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.” IfsPaidAgreementAgain And Again Author:Rudyard Kipling
“The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.” TwoEndsParentDifferencesSimpleQualityPovertyStrugglePolicyPaidRemainsWorkplaceFlexibilityAntidoteAffordablePaychecksSingle ParentChildcare Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.” FallNumbersPaidWork OutProductivityIncomeBossDeclineArrangementsFlexibleFalling DownWorkforceMaternityNotchesChildcareMaternity Leave Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.” PeopleCultureLiteraturePaidPossessionHeavy Author:James A. Baldwin
“I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.” ForgetPaidBagsNever ForgetTagPrice Tag Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.” IfsMindKindHas BeensMadeFilmOfficePaidBoxesMind SetBox OfficeBox Office Success Author:Jessica Lange
“My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.” WonderfulQuietEnglandPaidDrawingAgentsHallsSalaryGardener Author:Lillie Langtry
“To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.” YearsFirstsShowsFunPrideGayPaidClubsNew YearSan FranciscoNew Years EveGay PrideFun Things Author:Queen Latifah
“I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.” IfsI CanIdeasSufferingEconomyVirtueComfortPaidEmbraceShakesPsychicsSuccess Happiness Author:Hugh Laurie
“Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.” FeelsYearsPersonsArtistIndividualMy OwnCreativeTakenComfortableSkinsPaidDuesDrivenCuriousSoloCreative Person Author:Annie Lennox
“I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsBelieveKindI CanCharacterShowsActionTogetherFunFoolProjectsPaidIncentives Author:Elmore Leonard
“A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.” CulturePaidPropertyCreatorAnarchy Book:Free Culture Source: Free Culture