Top 64 Self Paid Quotes

#1. It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Rebecca Mader

Self Paid Quotes #29
#2. There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

Leo Hindery

Self Paid Quotes #932
#3. Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

Saul Leiter

Self Paid Quotes #950
#4. The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe.

George Eliot

Self Paid Quotes #1737
#5. I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

Scott Foley

Self Paid Quotes #4025
#6. [T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Elaine Dundy

Self Paid Quotes #4137
#7. I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.

Billy Magnussen

Self Paid Quotes #4641
#8. Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

Dick Van Dyke

Self Paid Quotes #5429
#9. I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

Gary Weiss

Self Paid Quotes #6152
#10. Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Self Paid Quotes #6690
#11. 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.

John Pomfret

Self Paid Quotes #7036
#12. I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

Laura Davies

Self Paid Quotes #7230
#13. Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

Eli Broad

Self Paid Quotes #7445
#14. Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day

Clive Tyldesley

Self Paid Quotes #8081
#15. I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

Arne Glimcher

Self Paid Quotes #8455
#16. Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

Olivia Thirlby

Self Paid Quotes #8786
#17. I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus

Katheryn Winnick

Self Paid Quotes #8912
#18. We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

Euell Gibbons

Self Paid Quotes #10373
#19. The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

Cesar Chavez

Self Paid Quotes #10871
#20. The 'absurdities' of life can either turn you into a 'philosopher' or a 'humorist'..
Both 'opposing' poles of the same scale, a matter of understanding..
Ideal, if we can slide down the scale this way and that...
Read somewhere..Philosophers get heard, Humorists get paid..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

Self Paid Quotes #10949
#21. If I weren't getting paid or didn't have a character like Wolverine to maintain, I would just be a tall, lean, fit guy.

Hugh Jackman

Self Paid Quotes #12105
#22. Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.

Bruce Springsteen

Self Paid Quotes #12370
#23. When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

John F. Kennedy

Self Paid Quotes #12459
#24. One of those people who paid for a monthly gym membership as if it were a charitable donation.

Michele W. Miller

Self Paid Quotes #13890
#25. I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

Janet McTeer

Self Paid Quotes #14295
#26. And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

Ernest Hemingway,

Self Paid Quotes #14515
#27. You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

Norm Coleman

Self Paid Quotes #15495
#28. What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile in light of the price paid in other ways.

Mary Roach

Self Paid Quotes #16340
#29. The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

David Rolf

Self Paid Quotes #16867
#30. If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Austan Goolsbee

Self Paid Quotes #17278
#31. You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

John Oates

Self Paid Quotes #18558
#32. The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

Barry Diller

Self Paid Quotes #18972
#33. What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

Ted Shackelford

Self Paid Quotes #19298
#34. Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

Dean Koontz

Self Paid Quotes #19314
#35. For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.

Robin Wright

Self Paid Quotes #20133
#36. {252}By robbing Peter he paid Paul,... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.

Various

Self Paid Quotes #20449
#37. 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

Self Paid Quotes #20574
#38. Worry is usually interest paid on a debt that never comes due.

Tim Dorsey

Self Paid Quotes #20713
#39. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Self Paid Quotes #20973
#40. On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Christopher Durang

Self Paid Quotes #22117
#41. Jesus did not die just to save you from hell. He paid the price to give you all of heaven.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

Self Paid Quotes #22702
#42. When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.

Sue Grafton

Self Paid Quotes #22919
#43. I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!

Stephen Richards

Self Paid Quotes #24055
#44. I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work ... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.

Dave Barry

Self Paid Quotes #24321
#45. The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

Caryl Chessman

Self Paid Quotes #25470
#46. You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

Jeannette Walls

Self Paid Quotes #26299
#47. I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

Robert Baldwin Ross

Self Paid Quotes #26310
#48. I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.

Gillian Jacobs

Self Paid Quotes #26839
#49. There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Self Paid Quotes #211192
#50. I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

J.A. Konrath

Self Paid Quotes #244555
#51. The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Nicole Krauss

Self Paid Quotes #304820
#52. I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.

Steven Wright

Self Paid Quotes #339079
#53. Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

Stephen Chbosky

Self Paid Quotes #392450
#54. Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

Niecy Nash

Self Paid Quotes #549367
#55. I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion ...

John Geddes

Self Paid Quotes #855334
#56. Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Self Paid Quotes #892408
#57. A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

B.C. Forbes

Self Paid Quotes #1078661
#58. Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

Wendell Pierce

Self Paid Quotes #1154890
#59. I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.
I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."
out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.

Charles Bukowski

Self Paid Quotes #1451588
#60. And in fact, writing is one of the worst-paid professions in the world: The average book sells fewer than 500 copies The average writer makes less than $10,000 per book advance. The average self-published author makes less $5000 in royalties per year.

Monica Leonelle

Self Paid Quotes #1501725
#61. She kept her other hand tucked into the front pocket of her hoodie, self-conscious of the two prosthetic fingers, despite the meticulous attention the plastic surgeon had paid to their aesthetic appearance.

John Burley

Self Paid Quotes #1562409
#62. What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

Ian Astbury

Self Paid Quotes #1570568
#63. It is never late, you can start the movement now, the provisions have been made, the price has been paid and the gifts have been packaged. Are you willing to change?

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Self Paid Quotes #1649649
#64. Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.

Alan Borovoy

Self Paid Quotes #1651018

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