“The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid.” PeopleWayYearsLongReasonEnoughStrongSoundAttitudePaidReason WhyWheelsEtcRhymeDressingsScopeInbreds Author:DJ Shadow
“So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.” PeopleIfsWorldWayPassionPaySupportTalentInspireIndustrySkillsCreatingIdealsPaidBillsBest WayIdeal WorldCreating Change Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.” PeopleIfsGivingNightPassionIndividualStuffHoursFiveMiddleMinesOffersPhotographyGive MePaidReliefWeekendVacationEditingNo MoneyMiddle Of The NightLaptops Author:Nikki Sixx
“Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsKindSaidImportantHouseLeftHavensBuiltPaidIf I CouldPlumberElectrician Author:Shane Filan
“I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.” PeopleThinkingShouldLittlesLongTakenMilitaryPeriodsPaidCriminalsLong Periods Of Time Author:Ben Stein
“In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make and execute the laws with rigour, than to guarding against encroachments upon the rights of the community. As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.” PeopleGivingLittlesGovernmentLawCommunityLibertyToo MuchRightsDegreesAuthorityPaidRegardRuinsAnarchyDespotismFramedMagistratesGuardingEncroachmentToo Much PowerRigour Book:1779-1781 Source: 1779-1781
“Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.” PeopleWayWellsLooksMeanWholeRunningNumbersPaidEmploymentPrimariesSufficientEnlightenedBlogs Author:Daniel Drezner
“Bill is about moving forward on a long overdue provision to protect vulnerable paid farm workers in Alberta to the same degree that they are protected in every other province in the country, and we feel confident that once people see how the bill actually applies to the regular family farm, they will see that a lot of the concerns were perhaps misplaced. And it's unfortunate that we created a situation that made people worry; that was not ever our intention.” PeopleFeelsLongMadeCountryMovingSituationWorryProtectDegreesConcernPaidBillsIntentionWorkersMoving ForwardVulnerableFarmsProtectedUnfortunateProvisionProvincesMisplacedOverdueAlbertaFamily Farms Author:Rachel Notley
“You are always looking for a different kind of read and a different kind of intention when you are by yourself in the booth. Occasionally you are playing off of people, but it is a bit of a different muscle that you have to flex. At the end of the day though, it really is all just great fun and play that we are lucky enough to get paid for.” PeopleKindDifferentEndsEnoughPlayFunBitsLuckyPaidIntentionMusclesThe End Of The DayDifferent Kinds Author:David Koechner
“People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsBigsDecisionCasesStupidActivityBasesPaidLots Of MoneyWrong ThingsSinisterBeing StupidStupid Decision Author:Michael Lewis
“The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed.” PeopleNeedsStillsIssuesPaidReformAddressesIncentivesRotten Author:Michael Lewis
“We have got to go and compete for the minds and the hearts and the votes of everybody in this country, no matter who they are. And what I think we've had is one party takes a group of people for granted and another party has not paid attention to them.” PeopleThinkingMindHeartCountryMatterPartyAttentionGroupsVotePaidGranted Author:Paul Ryan
“There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.” PeopleNeedsYoungArtistGenerationsPureSittingPaidDebtOddSalary Author:Astra Taylor
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.” PeopleIfsSchoolCoursesAttentionClassStudyTeacherTeachingStyleCollegeHabitHigh SchoolPaidLocalsGraduatesClownSequenceHarvardSelectedDoctoratesGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're doing research, you're shut down for a while. You have to start all over again. So that's one area where I paid a high price.” PeopleResearchAreasPaidInvestigationLabsHigh Prices Author:Carl Hart
“People who have been prostitutes are ten times more willing to be johns than the average person. So, if you've been paid for sex you understand the value of that experience on some level.” PeopleIfsPersonsHas BeensValuesSexLevelsWillingTenPaidAverageAverage Person Author:Annie Sprinkle
“Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.” PeopleMadeHelpingInterestRoomsPayWonderPolicyMusicianPaidIndependentEntityRepresentingLobbyists Author:Erin McKeown
“I was just worried that someone was gonna think that I had been commissioned by Jamba Juice to make cartoons about Jamba Juice. And the big thing for me was - if I'm not getting paid to sell out, I don't want people to think that I'm selling out.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBigsPaidSellsSellingWorriedCartoonBig ThingsJuiceSelling Out Author:David Rees
“And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.” PeopleIfsShouldSidesTermEconomicMovementBehaviorEconomicsPaidPoliceIronicRepresentativesOccupy MovementEconomic Status Author:Oren Moverman
“All the scenes that have to do with the fact that, at the end of the day, we're all engaged - hopefully some of us - in certain causes and ideals and certain ways of living, but we're human, and we're making all these mistakes, and we're caught in particular systems - whatever it is - but ultimately, there's a price paid by the people that are closest to you.” PeopleWayHumansEndsFactsCertainCausesMistakeParticularSceneIdealsPaidCaughtHopefullyEngagedThe End Of The DayClosest Author:Oren Moverman
“ItÂ’s not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. ItÂ’s making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay for what was free. Take water, for instance. Water has always been free. WeÂ’ve never paid for drinking water. The World Bank says the reason water has been misused is because it was never commercially priced. But the reason itÂ’s been misused is because it was wasted by the big users—industry, which polluted it.” PeopleWorldHas BeensReasonBigsWaterPayIndustryPaidBlueDrinkingInstanceMaking MoneyUsersDrinking WaterMisusedWorld BankMonsanto Author:Vandana Shiva
“Jesus was probably a guy who thought, "This thing that I've discovered can save the world and everybody is miserable without it." So he was probably a very kind and giving person and thought he had to give it to people, even if it killed him. He had to make sure they got the message, and he paid the ultimate price as they say due to his insistence.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingKindPersonsGuyJesusMessagesUltimatePaidDuesMiserableSave The WorldInsistence Author:Brad Warner
“Francis Coppola was very generous. We got paid a lot of money and he saw us every day, took us out every night. It was just a lot. Richard Gere was an absolute gentleman. Gregory Hines. You know, I worked with some giants and they were just so smooth. And it was the '80s. That's when people had a lot of money and it was okay to to hang out and be crazy.” PeopleKnowsNightSawsCrazyOkayPaidAbsolutesGenerousGentlemanGiantsHanging OutEvery NightLots Of MoneySmooth80sBeing Crazy Author:Jackee Harry
“When Donald Trump's projects go under, the first people that don't get paid are the contractors that he's - some of whom have gone bankrupt. They're calling me. I'm getting nonstop e-mails and calls now from people that have been scammed by Donald Trump. And their stories are heartbreaking.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensStoriesGoneTrumpCallingProjectsPaidMailHeartbreakingContractor Author:Marco Rubio
“People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time. We should apologize for it. We should make up for it. My shareholders paid for it. No customer was hurt, which is critical to me. But I hurt my shareholders, and I wish I hadn't.” PeopleNeedsShouldWishHurtMistakeShotsPaidCriticalCustomersMaking MistakesHungApologizingShareholders Author:Jamie Dimon
“Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.” PeopleThinkingWorldMadeStillsImportantRiskListeningPaidAlbumsEnormousRhythmConcertsAuntFuseRhythm And Blues Author:Joan Baez
“I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.” PeopleIfsThinkingChanceAttentionPaidHorribleDictator Author:Judy Woodruff
“The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper cameras we could get. The movies have a look to them, you can sorta point out the really low-budget movie. So even if the heart of the movie and the story are really, really great, they always sorta feel a little cheap.” PeopleIfsFeelsLooksHeartLittlesEndsStoriesUsedCostLowsPaidCamerasBudgetsReally GreatCheaper Author:Katie Aselton
“There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.” PeopleBelieveUseGovernmentOrderPaidSatireEntityEgypt Author:Bassem Youssef
“I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenMovingHalfAlivePaidBurdenMoving ForwardInherentUp To YouJust Do ItBeing A Woman Author:Rashida Jones
“The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.” PeopleIfsDoneEnoughWould BeJobsPayPaidWorkersVery GoodGood JobFree MarketPennies Author:David Rolf
“The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.” PeopleResultsPayFlowPaidProductionsDebtIncomeDeclineConsumptionDrains Author:Michael Hudson
“Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountryInterestEconomyFireGrowingProduceBalanceLaborPaidFinanceGoodsAssetsEstatesSheetsGoods And ServicesDebtorsBalance Sheets Author:Michael Hudson
“I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantArtStillsShowsAgeGuyCertainActorsStarsMy OwnAbilityComedyBandMusicianWake UpPaidSurfaceSurvivedNobody KnowsGood Living Author:Denis Leary
“The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle class have benefits that they absolutely need. We are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. We are the only major country on Earth that does not provide paid family and medical leave. There are many countries around the world which make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition-free. In our country, it's becoming increasingly difficult to afford to go to college.” PeopleWorldNeedsDoeCountryStatesCareEarthDifficultUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleCollegeBecomingBenefitsMajorsPaidUniversityMedicalOur CountryAround The WorldHealth CareGuaranteesMiddle ClassTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenYoungLostParentBlackCommunityWhitePoorAttentionTalkingViolenceParticularGunPaidSlaveryCampaignsVulnerableBlack PeopleAdulthoodDisabledCrusadesGun ViolenceLynchingBlack Community Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWritingWantedJobsYoungThreeGoalDecisionMusicianPaidListsShipsAround The WorldThree ThingsCruiseMeeting New PeopleCruise ShipsMost Wanted Author:Phil Keoghan
“Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.” PeopleWantYearsCountryTogetherFightingPresidentIssuesCollegeHigherPaidClintonUniversityMedicalGuaranteesProposalDiscussingHigher EducationTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.” PeopleSaidAttentionFictionProgramClaimsPaidGenreGraduates Author:Sandra Cisneros
“A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.” PeopleLittlesMadeTwoKidsArtistCareersPaidMajorityAlbumsLittle Kid Author:Mike Posner
“There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.” PeopleGivenStandardsPaidKilling Author:Colin Kaepernick
“All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.” PeopleDifferencesJudgmentMusicianPaidLive ByPeersEconomistPhysicist Book:The Jazz Scene Source: The Jazz Scene
“This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought and paid for by big banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, insurance companies, the things that those two corporate parties both represent and which pull the strings inside the party.” PeopleThinkingTwoWarBigsPartyCompanyDangerousIntegrityDeservePaidCorporateGiantsFuelStringsFossilsFossil FuelInsurance Companies Author:Jill Stein
“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFirstsMayHas BeensReasonAsksMillionsRichStreetsWallReturnTrumpCoupleTaxesThirdsClaimsPaidReleaseCharitableDealingsTax ReturnsFederal Taxes Author:Hillary Clinton
“I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. I've heard from so many of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses that you're under. So let's have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.” PeopleWantChildrenCareFacesChoicesDifficultSupportStruggleHeardCollegeBalanceSickStressPaidDebtWant UAffordableChild CareDebt FreeDifficult ChoicesSick Days Author:Hillary Clinton
“I learned very early in my career that when I don't arrive on set, production will shut down, which means people won't get paid; there's that much responsibility.” PeopleMeanResponsibilityCareersPaidProductionsMean People Author:Priyanka Chopra
“People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.” PeopleMilitaryTrumpTaxesPaidZeroVetsHealth And Education Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you talk to anybody who's been successful in business, they will tell you the thing that matters the most are people. And clearly, in this case, the quality of the people was not paid attention to. By the board and I don't know what they were doing. And I think there is a certain accountability by the board here.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMatterCertainAttentionQualityCasesSuccessfulPaidBoardsAccountabilityThings That Matter Author:John Kasich
“I don't feel like it's a wasted vote because I think it encourages more people like that to run. I vote for the candidates that aren't bought and paid for like the Clintons.” PeopleThinkingFeelsRunningVotePaidClintonCandidates Author:Bill Burr
“I often get the question from people, "well how can you sell luxury at that price?" What I'm explaining to everyone is I'm still paying the same factory cost as I paid when they were $800. I pay the same as my competitors who are in the luxury space pay, I just don't mark them up as much because I haven't put them in a wholesale channel. I don't have to put that extra margin on them.” PeopleWellsStillsSpacePayHavensCostMarkPaidSellsLuxuryExtrasFactoriesCompetitorsExplainingMarginsWholesale Author:Tamara Mellon