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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
Leonard Cohen

Music, Fun, Play

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
Chris Christie

Family, Health, Teacher

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
Layne Staley

Music, Career, Enough

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Casey Stengel

Home, Someone, Else

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Change, Great, Best

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
Kevin Smith

Life, Yourself, Different

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Annie Lennox

Time, Person, Find

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Herman Melville

Between, Difference, Paying

I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.
Treat Williams

Love, Beautiful, Wife

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
Joan Jett

Life, Long, Attention

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Arthur C. Clarke

Age, Future, May

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Work, Hard, Understand

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad

May, Same, Nations

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
Clara Barton

Work, Nothing, May

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
Ice Cube

Money, Business, Hit

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.
Michael Moore

Health, Someone, Democracy

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
Sting

Life, Spiritual, Service

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
Sam Levenson

Ignore, Pay, Please

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
Chuck Norris

Time, Made, Become

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
Charles Barkley

Parents, Role, Model

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
Patton Oswalt

Three, Inside, Romance

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash

Work, Down, Standing

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
Vera Wang

Work, Time, Good

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
David Bailey

Hate, Yourself, Integrity

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Great, Teacher, Adversity

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Experience, Job

I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.
Angus Young

Money, Live, Deep

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Lech Walesa

Freedom, High, Hold

I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.
Rashida Jones

Women, Men, Forward

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
Linus Torvalds

End, Important, Getting

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