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I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

Poets are born, not paid.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.

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.

They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.