#paid

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#did #equipment #five #get #gig

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#also #believe #cause #every #gangster

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#every #everything #luxury #must #paid

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. ↗

— Robert Peel

#being #citizen #community #duties #every

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#afford #because #being #copied #enraged

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women. ↗

— Kyle D. Pruett

#competence #fulfilled #get #happier #her

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge. ↗

— Robert Purvis

#advise #am #born #bought #elect

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid. ↗

— Will Smith

#create #focus #get #had #i

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#because #great #iraq #paid #prices

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

— Richard Rorty

#paid #paying #seen #sentences #simply