...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?
It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.
I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.
I've never come out and said, 'I hold the most pay-per-view buys.' All I know is what I got paid, and I'm happy.
blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.
Might sound crazy but I just left the private plane, promoter paid 100 k and I ain't even stay the whole day.
I have long believed that success stories need a bit of balance. We only hear from people who risked it all, and found it paid off.
The United States is one of the few nations on the planet where paid family and medical leave or earned sick time is not the law of the land.
On a TV show, for instance, dancers have to be paid for a week and a half rehearsal time. So unless they're vital to a production, they're just not used.
I'd decided that the day I paid off all my debts, I would get married. Exactly two months later, I got hitched.
I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.
Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich
I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.
It is overwhelmingly women who will plug the gaps in care provision, sacrificing paid employment to look after family members.
What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.
You can go on for days naming former elected officials who are now in the private sector getting paid lots of money for speeches.
Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
When you get started in comedy, you're at the bottom of the totem pole. Not only are you not getting paid at these open mics. You're actually paying to do them.
I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me.
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.
I tell the people that hire us, if we don't get a standing ovation when we're finished with our performance, it's free - and we've always been paid.
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
Perceived value is paramount for most diners; a feeling of satisfaction that what you've paid for is commensurate with what you've received. That is, provided your expectations are rational.
My first few years, I'd make maybe $10 for a match. Sometimes I wouldn't even get paid at all, but we were all in it because we loved it.
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.
I've worked with some great people [in Star Trek], and I was paid handsomely, and it was a nice role. So the whole experience was positive for me.
At Stansted I didn't get paid. There was the occasional... well an old man there who used to give me a fiver if I scored the winning goal!
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a real royalty from that.
All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.
I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.
I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.
In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.
The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.
Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.
When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.
It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
Nintendo has paid a great deal of attention to the dynamic of people playing video games together in the same room.
Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.
I don't get paid for what I do in public places. So I invest the money I earn in galleries back into doing the stuff I passionately want to do on the street.
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.
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