Quotes About Livelihood

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

Chennai is such a beautiful place to perform in. The city is lovely, and the people, even more so.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

I just love being in front of the camera making people laugh, cry, entertaining them. It's the 'nasha' of performance that I enjoy. It's my calling, and I'm blessed to be able to do that for a living.

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

The spouse of a woman is a man; the spouse of a man is his livelihood

Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the poverty line are in work - the state has to spend billions of pounds a year on in-work benefits.

Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens.

I think that people need a livable wage.

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.