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Quotes About Paid

Richard had grown into a psychotic sadist who had discovered a way to hurt and kill people, and get paid for it. Life was good.
~ Philip Carlo
So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.
~ Robert Reich
'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us that attention.
~ Matt Berninger
Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.
~ Robert Scoble
I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign.
~ Soccer Mommy
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
~ David Steinberg
They make the money cheap to borrow, and then that debt turns the borrower into a weapon against change. As long as the world doesn't change, the bonds are paid off.
~ PO BRONSON
The biggest fools are those who are paid to be wise.
~ Proverb
You've got to support working families. We should be looking to support those who strive the hardest, and increase the national living wage, to make sure that the lowest paid get the biggest increase in pay.
~ Matt Hancock
My first job, actually, was a Chicago Bulls commercial. I was a ninja. I walked with a limp for a week afterward and got paid 500 dollars 6 months later. Thanks, guys.
~ Samuel Witwer
I think so often about how, when I was starting out at UCB, Conan O'Brien was in town, and on his show back then, they sometimes did character bits, and I started getting paid to dress up as a page or a Dutch boy on his show.
~ Chris Gethard
'MythBusters' sounded like such an incredible opportunity. Where else might I be paid to make robots blow things up?
~ Grant Imahara
I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
~ Chris Eigeman
I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.
~ Edd Byrnes
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
~ Joseph Heller
War ... it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
~ Joseph Heller
The distinction between assistant and intern is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not. But of course interns are paid, in experience.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
~ James Dyson
I feel I deserve a little amusement at someone else's expense. That is all. I have worked for it. I have paid for it. And I propose to have it.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
~ Douglas Adams
He honored all His Father's laws, Which we have disobeyed; He bore our sins upon the cross, And our full ransom paid.
~ Douglas Bond
It hit him that his own form of loneliness was a luxury, one as chosen and as paid for as three weeks in Kenya's velds or a cherry red Ferrari. Real loneliness wasn't something an assistant scoped out and got a good price on. Real loneliness was smothering and it stank of hopelessness.
~ Douglas Coupland
In fact, the US is the only country besides Papua New Guinea that doesn't mandate paid leave. The United States. The country of family values.
~ Aimee Molloy
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
~ Dick Gregory