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Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Theodore Roosevelt

Mind, Together, Leader

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
Joel Osteen

Money, God, Mind

A church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward Beecher

Devil, Debt, Church

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

Power, Support, Found

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair

Understand, Difficult, Depends

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Alfred Hitchcock

Character, Motivation, Actor

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
Roald Dahl

Life, Simple, Thinking

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nature, Personal, Himself

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

School, Children, Made

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
Jim Carrey

Work, Control, Whole

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
Jessica Savitch

Between, Individual, Belief

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
Larry Hagman

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
Satyajit Ray

Mind, Wait, Keep

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
Nicole Kidman

Job, Ask, Stories

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
Danica McKellar

Business, Give, Show

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
Jessica Lange

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Dave Chappelle

Teacher, Comedy

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Lillie Langtry

Wonderful, Quiet, Paid

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.
Brett Favre

Person, Sometimes, Team

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
Drew Carey

Learning, Live, Level

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
Gene Tierney

Live, Down, Swinging

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
Charles Babbage

Made, Whose, Paid

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Everything, Give, Promise

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Beah Richards

Education, Help, Human

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.
Daniel Keys Moran

Change, Country, Year

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
Ethel Waters

Work, Someone, Impossible

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
Donald Pleasence

Money, Future, Become

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.
Guy Lafleur

Family, Money, Wanted

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.
Anna Held

Bigger, Applaud

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Evelyn Waugh

Person, Himself, Religious

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