Pay Quotes - page 98

The Korean government is the first to declare that if you replace people with machines you have to pay a tax. It's a tax on robots. They make private companies internalise the social cost of unemployment. Social benefit is not the same as private benefit. We have to realise this. (Abhijit Banerjee)
I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write. View quote
Anne Perry
That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life. View quote
Michael Robotham
I would appreciate it if just this once you would make the effort to curb your negativism.” "I have to say what I think. That's what I'm being paid for, after all. View quote
Michael Swanwick
This is the price you must pay for knowledge: You must understand and acknowledge its consequences. View quote
Michael Swanwick
Paid off? Do you mean bribery?” "That is, umm, not an entirely pleasant word for it.” Dreschler's doughy face took on a pained expression. "It is more in the nature of an advance payment to ensure the labor force will be satisfied with the negotiated wage schedules. View quote
Michael Swanwick
Paid off? Do you mean bribery? View quote
Michael Swanwick
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions. View quote
Michael Shannon
Let's be clear about one thing. Non-college educated doesn't mean stupid. It means you wisely chose not to pay $40,000 a year to be lectured on microaggressions. View quote
Milo Yiannopoulos
You see, feminists don't really like to define the Patriarchy. They prefer to keep it nebulous and amorphous so they can conveniently blame it for everything that goes wrong in their lives. Not being paid enough? Patriarchy! Not getting a promotion? Patriarchy! Too many catcalls? Patriarchy! Too few catcalls? Patriarchy! View quote
Milo Yiannopoulos
I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me. (Macaulay Culkin)
I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child. View quote
Margot Robbie
With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do. View quote
Marc Guggenheim
We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention. View quote
Mark Strand
I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors. View quote
Marco Pierre White
If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide. View quote
Martha Beck
I don't get paid if my clients don't get better by a certain time period. And sure, I have not been paid before. We all fail sometimes; it's okay. View quote
Marshall Goldsmith
I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy. View quote
Matt Groening
I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time. View quote
Matt Groening
When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent. View quote
Matthew Quick
Speaking from personal experience, if someone asked me on a date, I would still want to pay. (Matthew Hussey)
I believe that if a guy doesn't offer to pay the whole thing when he asks you on a date, he wasn't taught right. But I also believe if a woman on a date allows him to pay for the whole thing without at least offering to pay half, she wasn't taught right. View quote
Matthew Hussey
What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off. View quote
Mary Beard
I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking. View quote
Mehmet Oz
I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet. View quote
Miguel Syjuco