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It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
Ben E. King

Life, Time, Money

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

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 get paid to make out with the hunks!
Kelly Ripa

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

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
John Doolittle

Power, Means, Desire

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.
Brian Cox

Mother, Father, Giving

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

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
David O. Selznick

Success, Attention, Production

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

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.
Tom Berenger

Thought, Getting, While

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

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Townsend Harris

Time, War, Once

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
Nancy Sinatra

Before, American, Attention

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

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

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 don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.
Esai Morales

Person, Everyone, Knows

Well, actually yes, in 1988. There was a warrant for me because my assistant hadn't paid a ticket of mine.
Esai Morales

Actually, Yes, Mine

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

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
Randy Moss

Negative, Critics

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
Iggy Pop

Money, Waiting, Give

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
Austin Dobson

Night, Sense, Lovely

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.
Kelly Brook

Off, Anyone, Lived

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

Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.
Kenneth Starr

Lawyers, Defense, Claim

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Nancy Kerrigan

Parents, Said, Wanted

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
Daniel Libeskind

Wanted, Won, Ground

I never ever paid attention to any election.
Young Jeezy

Attention, Election

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.
Jimmy Carl Black

Long, Old, Mothers

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