Paid Quotes

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.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

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

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.