Pay Quotes - Page 43

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

I sold my soul for the second time, cause' the man don't pay me.

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.

There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.

If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.

Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.

We think passengers who forget to print their boarding passes should pay €60 for being so stupid.

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I dont even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.