#paid

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#cannot #certificates #checks #commodities #countries

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#fought #i #long #long time #me

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#another #character #earn #emotional #expression

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#get well #go #grateful #i #out

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition. ↗

— Sumner Redstone

#competition #even #journal #much #murdoch

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#actor #calls #college #cops #experience

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#american films #being #big #career #exciting

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#appealing #attention #going #interesting #long

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#hire #hired #interest #money #often

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#available #because #carry #commercial #far