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The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.
Laurel Clark

Time, Medical, School

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
Esther Dyson

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
Taylor Hackford

The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.
Graham Swift

Work, Moment, Seem

I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
Tom Shadyac

Money, Million, Almighty

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.
Tina Weymouth

Time, Great, Real

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
Richard Rorty

Truth, Seen, Simply

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
William Booth

Career, Profession, Income

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.
Hugh Grant

Money, Real, Reputation

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.
Ezra Koenig

Life, Pretty, Sure

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties - 'collateral damage' - is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity.
Sebastian Junger

Long, Humanity, Law

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Times, Three, Value

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.
Chris O'Donnell

Business, Experience, Learning

You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.
Chris O'Donnell

Funny, Sleep, Play

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.
Kurt Busch

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
Arthur Capper

Government, Business, Others

Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.
Sigmar Gabriel

Hate, Long, Stay

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Film, Grand, Lowest

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
Richard O'Brien

School, Theatre, Drama

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
Harold H. Greene

Once, Times, Both

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!
Moira Kelly

Parents, Thought, Kids

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.
Diane Sawyer

Fun, Learn, Getting

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
Debbie Harry

Writer, Performer

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne

Music, Time, Business

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.
Lev Yilmaz

Time, Someone, Hell

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.
Robert Stack

Person, Thought, Why

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Lawrence Lessig

Free, Culture, Artists

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
Ajay Naidu

Family, Through, Before

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Anita Loos

Everything, Free, Else

Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
Josh Gad

Nothing, Book, Keep

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