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My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

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.

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.