Paid Quotes - Page 17

• Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Happiness, Helping Others

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• 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.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Laughter, Fun, Strangers And Friends

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• Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Work, Careers

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• If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Two, Literature, Might

  "The New York Times", June 30, 1985.

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• Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

  Adam Smith

  Money, Labour Movement, Labor Day

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.13

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

  Adam Smith

  Labour Movement, Labor Day, Firsts

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.5.

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• Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Needs, Debt, Shapes

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• I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

  Will Smith

  Character, Focus, Bagger

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• Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

  Casey Stengel

  Running, Home, Yankees

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• I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

  Sting

  Spiritual, Lips, Lip Service

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• The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Dollars, Stories

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• Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Nineteen, Attention

  "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.

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• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Freedom, Gains

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.447, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

  Matt Taibbi

  Safe, Financial, Compass

  "The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 19, 2013.

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.372, Pan Macmillan

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• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Humor, Effective Listening

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suspicion, Findings, Suspects

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.26, New York Review of Books

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• There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Finding The One, Doubt, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.116, Penguin

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• I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

  Justin Timberlake

  Trying, Sound, Albums

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

  Linus Torvalds

  Fun, Work, Program

  "First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?". Interview with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. March 2, 1998.

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• Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

  Linus Torvalds

  Important, Want, Economy

  "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

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• I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Economy, Pizza

  "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

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• The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Best Job

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

  Mike Tyson

  Vegas, Mike, My Time

  "'I ain't the same person I was'". www.espn.com. June 28, 2004.

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• I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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