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“I get paid for what most kids get punished for.”

“I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.”

People Ifs Giving Effort Paid Shoes

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.”

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Author:Joe Manchin

“I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

“Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.”

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Author:Theresa May

“The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.”

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Author:Mitch McConnell

“Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.”

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Author:John C. McGinley

“Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!”

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Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

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Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.”

Want War Victory Paid

Author:Golda Meir

“There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.”

World Literature Differences Paid

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.”

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Author:Lionel Messi

“Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I went to prison, I paid my bill.”

Paid Bills Prison

Author:George Michael

“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”

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Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”

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Author:Arthur Miller

“I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.”

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Author:Wentworth Miller

“I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.”

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Book:Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Source: Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

“I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free.”

People Ifs Wells Reason Taken Paid Video Apologizing Youtube I Apologize

Author:Moby

“If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.”

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Author:Moby

“My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.”

Needs Care Sick Paid Health Care Employee Sick Days

Author:Michael Moore

“All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.”

Different Courses Paid University Scholarship

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.”

Thinking Knows Use Acting Brain Half Know How Paid Dues

Author:Emily Mortimer

“Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.”

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Book:The secret of inner strength: my story

Source: The secret of inner strength: my story

“You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.”

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Author:Chris O'Donnell

“Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.”

Thinking Years Able Paid Theater Tables Equity

Author:Denis O'Hare

“What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.”

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Author:Olusegun Obasanjo

“My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.”

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Author:Apolo Ohno

“A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.”

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Author:Suze Orman

“You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.”

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Author:Mehmet Oz

“I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.”

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Author:Gordon Parks

“Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

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