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“If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.”

Ifs Looks Song Millions Percent Fairs Paid Checks Streams

Author:Jimmy Iovine

“I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.”

Facts Passion Views Acting Paid Point Of View Bonus

Author:Katheryn Winnick

“I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.”

Author:Melissa de la Cruz

“This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.”

Rights Battle Performances Paid Songwriters Downloads Sync Turf Baloney

Author:Jonathan Potter

“When I’m Chad from Nickelback, then I have to wear one hat and I have to wear various others when I’m Chad Kroeger who is co-owner of 604 Records or someone who’s working on an independent project. At that point I want to know where the record is getting licensed, as well as absolutely every aspect of how we’re going to deliver a song to the public and how we’ll all get paid for doing so.”

Knows Want Wells Song Records Projects Aspect Paid Independent Various Hats Owners Chad Nickelback

Author:Chad Kroeger

“Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.”

Enough Night Paid Concerts Every Night Jordan

Author:Michael Wilbon

“It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.”

People Blessing Paid Paradise Friendly Hawaiians

Author:Rebecca Mader

“If you paid your mortgage off, it means you probably did not manage your funds efficiently over the years.”

Ifs Years Mean Paid Manage Fund Mortgage

Author:David Lereah

“We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.”

Men Mind Made Certain Given Wealth Class Conscience Paid Dear Envy Riches Enormous Suits Peace Of Mind Honour Bargains

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.”

Knows Country Fit Paid Journalist Publication

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.”

Facts Would Be Balance Conscience Accounts Paid Dues Instance Occasions Creditors Debtors Saying Less

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!”

Littles Home Lying Three White Cold Paid Los Angeles Mortgage Ferrari White Lie

Author:Milton Berle

“If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.”

Ifs Firsts Sleep Paid Cigar

Author:George Burns

“God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.”

People Knows Literature Attitude Criticism Sick Paid Critics Following Camps God Knows Eunuchs

Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.”

Should Trying Years I Can Guy Paper Draws Paid University Comic Ads Campus Cartoonist Freshman Comic Strips Funny Guy Freshman Year

Author:Dan Povenmire

“That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.”

Way Doe Certain Attention Vision Painting Civilization Function Paid Organize

Author:Jasper Johns

“The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.”

People Want Paid Entertainment Basic Things

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.”

Paid Get Away True Things

Author:Roseanne Barr

“The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.”

States Mother Father United United States Economy Paid Parental

Author:Brigid Schulte

“Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.”

Thinking Done Consequence Paid Worthwhile

Author:Laurence Overmire

“I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Said Sometimes Matter Energy Interesting Attention Seeing Benefits Photography Paid Photograph Visuals Unbearable Every Second Taking Pictures

Author:Saul Leiter

“So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.”

People I Can Done Facts Law House Imagine Taught Lows Paid Agree Boring Lawyer Familiar Frustrating Repetitive Drudgery Housekeeping Unintelligent

Book:Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

Source: Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House

“Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.”

Years Term White Class Paid Slave Bounds Miserable Servant Wages Laborers

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way. No one really knows whether that page will rank #1 in Google; no one really knows which paid search copy will get the highest click rate. Even experts can’t tell you which content will attract the most links. You just have to try it and see.”

“Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.”

Attention Music Is Paid Careful Ongoing

Book:Words & Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City

Source: Words & Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City

“By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.”

Needs Should Social Waiting Attention Media Events Should Have Paid Everyday Currents Social Media Discussion Classroom Grandchildren Current Events

Author:Adora Svitak

“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.”

Years Humans Has Beens Father Nations Generations Blood Civilization Years Ago Paid Granted Dawn Our Father Price Human Civilization

Author:Menachem Begin

“If you have a business website; make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage...then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising.”

Ifs Trying Important Audience Keys Internet Beats Paid Advertising Drivers New Things Website Banner Inexpensive Optimization Merchandising Redos

Author:Lynda Resnick

“However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.”

Beautiful Illusion Paid Bargains

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.”

Women Paid Addresses Compliment Finest

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?”

Ifs Knows Doe Facts Jobs Black Hours Pay Youth Amount Paid Employers Black Youth

Book:Economics

Source: Economics

“That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.”

People Wells Government Jobs Interesting Organization Paid University Retirement Severe Indictment Government Service

Author:Peter Drucker

“People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for.”

People Ifs Asks Mines Paid Ask Me Breasts

Author:Dolly Parton

“The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.”

Made Greater Paid Debt Ease Slender

Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

“I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.”

Sometimes Paid Refuse

Author:Frank Gehry

“John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.”

People Firsts Use Values Wealth Millions Computer Glory Built Paid Dollars Apples Ruined

Author:Steve Jobs

“Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.”

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

“Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.”

Needs Humans Kind Understood Claims Paid Excellence Intellect Complement High Prices

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.”

“No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.”

Play Political Purpose Nations Social Natural Economic Development Labor Paid Rational Corporations Hats March Social Life Geese Tin Scoundrels Babbling Vigilante

Author:John L. Lewis

“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.”

Ifs Want Lying Attention Paid

Author:Sitting Bull

“You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a director. So, I've just always done it. It was always a hobby. The funny thing was that when I started to get paid to do it as a professional job, I lost my hobby. I don't know what to do. I have to take up something else now.”

Knows Done Play Jobs Lost Directors Paid Hobbies Funny Things

Author:David Oakes

“I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.”

People World Goal Focus Paid Lots Of Money

Author:Jim Carrey

“We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.”

Humans Important Teacher Wall Paid Financial Tiny Fractions

Author:Robert Reich

“I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life.”

I Can Sides Greater Musician Music Is Paid Honestly Music Is Life

Author:Lil Wayne

“I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.”

Knows World Kind Worst Baseball Paid Hitting Dough

Author:Dick Stuart

“People don't need to be paid to be motivated.”

People Needs Paid Motivated

Book:Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Source: Contagious: Why Things Catch On

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”