“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.” WholeUseMovingFourHappenedHundredStonesPaidTwentiesOriginalsDollarsDrawingTreasureAgentsDamnConvinceSixtyFifteenRollingRolling StonesRue Author:Ralph Steadman
“In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.” BelievePersonsSaidForceI BelieveSawsHappenedAirPaidCamerasWingsPlanesUfoAir ForceBelgians Author:Robert Stack
“My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.” IfsThinkingStillsPoorWifeHappenedPaidMy WifeThings Happen Author:Denis Leary
“The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.” JesusHappenedDiedPaidDebt Author:John Piper
“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.” FirstsCountryDonePlayWholeRunningWantedJobsParentRecordsHappenedPaidDancingLawyerDancerEngagementRunning AwayVocationDarlingFuriousAccountants Author:Bruno Tonioli
“I bought a house right before the housing crisis happened. So I paid too much and then I was stuck with it for a long time. So that was sad for me. I was like, "I'd better make a movie about this to get it out of my system."” LongHouseToo MuchHappenedLong TimePaidCrisisStuckHousingHousing Crisis Author:Hamish Linklater
“Well, I didn't read My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt very carefully. I was away during a lot of that, in the war and so on. She was not all that good a writer. She was a little bit on the banal side, and you know, what happened, and then this happened, and then that happened... But I will say this. She got very well paid for it.” KnowsWellsLittlesWarBitsSidesHappenedLittle BitPaidEleanor Author:William A. Rusher
“I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.” IfsThinkingWayDoneHappensAttentionSawsHappenedKingsPaidPressesThings HappenOne WayBusLutherBirmingham Author:Garry Winogrand
“It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.” WholeHappenedIndustrySafePaidCrisisFinancialCompassRatingFinancial Crisis Author:Matt Taibbi
“To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.” IfsThinkingKnowsSaidDoneMightPainCasesHappenedPaidTelling The TruthSinceritySlipsSaid And Done Author:Ismail KadarĂ©
“The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.” WantSaidReasonSchoolThreeHappenedPaidActressesConsistentlyGood WorkThree Things Author:Angela Bassett