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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe
Life
You
Walk
Before
Point
Court
Depended
Paid
Your
Playing
County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
Arthur Capper
Government
Business
Others
Consolidating
Some
Similar
Simplified
Performance
County
Making
Reducing
Private
Salaries
Greatly
Offices
Duties
Paid
Keeping
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller
Character
Human Being
Must
Finest
He
Attention
Terrible
Him
Terrible Thing
Human
Being
Happening
Paid
Lived
Ever
Thing
As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.
Arthur Slade
Good
Family
You
People
Writing
Feedback
Reading
Books
Once
Members
More
Review
Times
Get
Family Members
Getting
Just
While
Paid
Your
Actually
Enjoyable
Start
I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.
Ashton Kutcher
You
Once
Tag
Price
Never
Never Forget
Bag
Learned
Forget
Paid
In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
Barbara Sukowa
Good
Stars
Other
France
Respected
More
Countries
Like
Course
Celebrated
Germany
American
Paid
European
European Countries
Film
Film Stars
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.
Barry Diller
You
Business
Invention
Way
Though
Some
Only
New
Advertising
Content
Got
Revenue
Model
Subscription
Either
Business Model
Paid
Now
Right
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
Barry Diller
You
Internet
Will
Free
Believe
System
Promise
Absolutely
Days
Inevitably
Passing
Paid
People have paid for content. They always have.
Barry Diller
People
Content
Always
Paid
Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.
Barry Schwartz
World
Dark
Dark Side
Too
Side
Hidden
Magic
Seems
Attention
Known
Bullet
Years
Commerce
Anything
Psychologists
Little
Little Attention
Paid
Incentives
Largely
It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.
Barton Gellman
Phone
Honors
Unable
Out
Date
Feature
Supply
Recurring
Bug
Sure
Makes
Said
Accurate
American
Representative
American Express
Which
Turns
Paid
Payments
Bills
Even
Express
Card
Number
It's almost ludicrous that I'm playing a game and getting paid for it. I'm just going to ride it as long as I can.
Becky Sauerbrunn
Game
Ride
Long
Almost
Getting
Going
Just
Paid
Ludicrous
Playing
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.
Ben Silbermann
People
Thought
Some People
Way
Kid
Those
Some
Entrepreneurs
Always
Idolized
Were
Dunk
Get
Paid
Cool
Cool People
Players
Basketball
In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.
Bernie Sanders
Civil
Fines
Paid
Medicaid
Million
In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.
Bernie Sanders
Physician
Other
Settle
Brought
Network
Lawsuits
Physicians
Outside
Consumers
Leading
Insurance
American
Preferred
Paid
Company
Groups
Medical
Million
Services
Association
I remember in 2004, I had three gorgeous transgender models on the runway. That was my strength, in a way. That I did what I thought was gonna work, and I never paid attention to the industry's rules.
Betsey Johnson
Work
Strength
Remember
Gorgeous
Thought
Three
Transgender
Way
Rules
Runway
Never
Had
Attention
Industry
Did
Models
Gonna
Paid
I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.
Betty Wright
Hate
Smart
Enough
Everyone
Kids
Would
Something
Well
Because
Were
Began
Get
Did
Done
Getting
Legislation
Maybe
Just
Sampling
Realized
Us
Paid
Used
Right
Basically
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
Bill Dedman
Time
Could
Put
Always
Wages
Wal-Mart
Get
Sam
Little
Low
Paid
Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.
Bill Gross
Money
Election
Country
Important
Our
Ours
Fact
Lifetime
Bought
Most
Same
The Most Important
Paid
I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.
Bill Kristol
Money
Made
Kind
Would
About
Percent
Given
More
He
Investments
Know
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Were
Than
Tax
Tax Code
Which
Romney
Personally
Paid
Code
Designing
I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.
Bill Maris
Good
Minority
Google
Our
Entrepreneurs
Shareholders
Clear
Investments
Make
Sell
Very
Get
Decide
Paid
Incentive
Companies
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
Bill McCartney
Great
Culture
Walk
Church
Face
Past
Christian
Other
Jews
Our
Must
Would
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Price
Wrongs
Gentile
Years
Traditions
Fit
Sisters
Them
Require
Paid
Many
Away
Christian Church
Rejected
Jewish
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.
Bill Murray
Time
You
Travel
Trouble
Think
High
Through
Well
Well Known
Known
Sure
Salaries
Get
Any
Whenever
Being
Acting
Paid
Film
Actor
Film Actors
Away
He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
Bill Scott
Best
Business
Master
Other
State
Relations
Chaos
Television
Some
Only
He
Very
Getting
Public
Confrontation
Taxpayers
Paid
Apparatus
Public Relations
Exposure
Media
Extensive
Basis
The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
Billy Gardell
You
Anger
Be Kind
Fear
Humor
Insecurity
Think
Once
Way
Hey
Out
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Comics
Quickest Way
Quickly
Get
Paid
Figure
Cool
I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.
Billy Magnussen
Love
Something
Doing
Very
Get
Paid
Fortunate
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