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I always want more. I will always want to earn more.
Freedom is not a God-given right, we have to earn it.
I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, ‘You’re mad, everyone wants these jobs – and if you go to England, you’re doubly mad.’ But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn’t even know what a director did.
It really doesn’t matter if I work a lot, because most of everything I earn goes to pay alimony.
I love music with my soul, but I’m also a student of it, so it’s very important to me to earn the respect of my peers, my fellow musicians and producers.
I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I’m just trying to earn a living. So buy this book – or my kids will have to go to foster care.
Chefs don’t become chefs just to earn stars – that’s not the goal.
Everybody needs a hit, but at the same time, people have to like my work, too. I’m more thankful for the fact that people appreciated my work in every film, and I work hard to earn that.
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
No matter what contract anyone is on it is important you are playing football. It is a short career and you have to earn a living but at the same time playing football is the best way to get better contracts anyway.
I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn’t know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
My diet and exercise habits – which make me feel good and earn my doctor’s approval – have made it easy to lose the bulk of the weight I gained during pregnancy.
Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button – ’59 cents.’ Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, ‘What does ’59 cents’ mean?’ One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
You work all season to earn the trust of your teammates and the coaching staff.
I don’t think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don’t want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren’t looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that’s a shame.
I don’t see anything degrading about marriage or homemaking, but my husband and I pool the money we earn, along with the jobs around the house.
I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I’m just very lucky that I’m still doing it and able to earn a living from it.
Money has an important role the older you become. To get this chance at nearly 31, to go from the Greek league to a big team in Asia and earn well, it feels very nice. The money will be security for me and my family.
You want to earn that opportunity to be part of WrestleMania, the biggest show of the year.
We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don’t earn.
I’m not a spendthrift. It’s hard enough to earn!
Jazz has always been my first love. It has this timeless effect on me. It’s pretty odd that I didn’t become a jazz musician. I went another way because I needed to earn a good living to support my large family.
We don’t have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it.
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it’s not really worthy of it.
You can’t buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
You earn very little money on independent films and I’m the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
Without the community, as pro athletes, we’re nothing, so I feel it’s important to give back and definitely connect with supporters the fans and the people that help us earn our living.
One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.
I have huge respect for women who go out of their homes and have the courage to make their own destiny. And let me tell you, Indian women are doing a great job. There are those who work because they have no option but to earn, and then there are those who do it because they have the right talent. I respect both.
We learnt a lot from county cricket – even if we did not earn stacks of money from it.
The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.
Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.
What we know is that when girls don’t go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they’re more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.
I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it’s a different kind of pace.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.
I’d love to retire in terms of not having to go to work anymore and earn a living.
I think when you invest a lot, you earn your rewards.
The money I earn from a live show is divided into two parts. One section goes towards producing my music videos, and the other goes into my savings.
I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
I’m just going to be a sponge. I’m going to be a good teammate. I’m going to be a hard worker, earn my respect first.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it’s not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
The days of 35-year-old pros turning up in the States to earn easy money before retiring are long gone and the MLS is a really competitive league.
A large social-media presence is important because it’s one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.
The money financially is more for the family because I just enjoy playing darts. It’s great situation to be able to earn money out of it.
My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it’s a very privileged one – being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.
I think that the direct conversation is exactly what companies need to earn trust of customers. Admit an error. Fix a problem. Commit to doing better. That is only human.
My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don’t earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.
Labor, and the ability to earn one’s own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.
What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.
Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you’ve led.
It was very important to me to create something that would create a legacy. I wanted to do something that had the ability to earn billions of dollars – like really had the ability to do that.
Money is here to be made in America. – for those with the ability to earn it legitimately. The exception appears to be when you’re young, gifted, and black. There are always questions when the three intertwine.
I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
I’m not going to change who I am or the way I promote fights just to get a title shot, but I think I’ve done plenty to earn that shot.
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.
I’m an actor and a playwright, and I don’t earn much.
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother’s house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.
Uber survives only if people trust us. You have to trust us with your data. You have to trust us with your safety or the safety of your loved ones. And we have to earn that trust every day in the way that we operate.
We have many identities, and we can’t be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.
When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending the wage gap, we will help ensure that every child can achieve his or her God-given potential.
Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.
Growing up on a Cumbrian farm showed me first hand that you get out of life what you put in. If you don’t put crops in the ground, you can’t feed your animals or earn money.
All of our other albums were consecutive year after year: ‘No More Mr. Nice Guy,’ ‘Step in the Arena,’ ‘Daily Operation,’ ‘Hard to Earn.’ After ‘Hard to Earn,’ a four-year gap is a lot of not having Gang Starr music, as far as an album is concerned.
When you earn your own money you feel much better about yourself.
As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you’re running a business, and we can’t make money because the wages are too high, that’s a problem.
I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.
With respect to the world of football, I earn a normal wage. But compared to 99.9% of Spain and the rest of the world, I earn an obscene amount.
I think film writing, you’re thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you’re thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it’s also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you’re headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.
My expenses are largely a fixed, sunken cost, regardless of how much revenue I earn.
Nothing is more important to those of us at CIA than our obligation to earn the trust of our fellow citizens.
My first film was a super-hit. It made the producer earn a lot of money and gave me a lot of fame. The funny part is that I acted in Tum Bin’ as a project for which I was paid a stipend and not the money that comes to the star of a very popular film.
Everyone should go up there and fight. Go up there and go through opponents and earn their opportunity to fight for the title, not talk their way into the title.
The day I do get my Roc Nation chain is going to be so much more valuable than if they gave it to me the day I signed. You have to earn it.
Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done – especially at these salary levels.
I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.
They’re human beings before they’re footballers and it’s important to understand how can I help them. What do they need? How can they feel part of this? How can they feel they’re improving in their career, because my job is to help them get better, play better football, earn a better contract, whatever it is.
The hardest thing to do is be a point guard, learn how to be a point guard in the NBA as a young player because you gotta earn your respect first of all the old guys, all the old heads. You gotta command where to go, know the plays.
Dad didn’t earn a big wage but even if he was really ill he’d go to work.
At the end of the day, it’s show business: you earn money to make money.
On the Internet, it’s not just content that’s king. It’s regular content. But models like Kickstarter don’t work for regular content. And the advertising you earn on YouTube is nice, but it doesn’t seem to assign the appropriate value for the amount of work and passion that goes into certain types of content.
Playing for Chelsea I have to be more ruthless than in the German team, where I have managed to earn myself a different status over the years.
I don’t believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
I mean, the Obama position has been, ‘We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.’
It takes a village to earn a spot representing your country, and I know that every single person who helped me get to the Olympics was also touched by the dream. The web of inspiration is incredible. Because of this, I know that the core principles and spirit of what the Olympics stand for are worth protecting.
I come to work every day thinking I have to earn my job, and I really believe that. I don’t have a given right to my job; I need to prove my value in my role every single day.
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less – that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
If I didn’t have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses… I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don’t just deserve it. I have to earn it.
I was appointed to the Senate, and it has been my job to serve in the Senate and then to earn the vote of Minnesotans.
As both a career intelligence officer and as an American citizen, I am a strong believer in the importance of oversight. Simply put, experience has taught us that CIA cannot be effective without the people’s trust, and we cannot hope to earn that trust without the accountability that comes with Congressional oversight.
Our union helps ensure that we earn fair pay and benefits.
I don’t earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.
No matter what I do, I’m going to earn it.
I am very excited about the prospect of using cryptocurrency, not just as a money equivalent, but using it as a way to earn something as a result of doing some type of work.
I love the thought of the AAF giving players a chance to earn experience through playing the game of football at a high level. And letting players showcase their skills and continue to develop.
I was a single mother and had to earn money.
People think you earn a fortune in TV, but that’s not always the case, especially when you’re working as a children’s presenter.
It’s not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
Trust is not something that’s given because you win an election; it’s something you have to earn.
The biggest problem of all is that it’s very difficult to tell my daughter, ‘Swearing is not clever or funny,’ because I earn a living by swearing.
These days, you can watch many different sports; you are saturated with it 24 hours a day. And young boys all want to be footballers because you don’t even need to be that good, and you can still earn ВЈ100,000 a week.
The idea that you earn things – that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility, the vote, punishment… these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
I have to continue to work, and I have to be touring, because that’s how I earn a living.
My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can’t just tell them, ‘Ok, be sad now.’
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
I just got advice to work hard like I always did and never, nobody gave me everything. I always had to earn everything by myself. If I will just continue to do that, I’ll be fine.
I look for respect and to try to earn the respect of a lot of people.
Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.
I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
The people who harvest America’s food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
This game is a profession now, it’s not a hobby any more. You can earn great money and there are loads of people earning a living out of the game.
You’ve just got to earn my respect.
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one’s contributions to computer science.
I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don’t think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It’s the least one can do.
The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?
I’ll be a governor who not only respects and listens to workers, but also fights for policies that make it easier for them to earn a good living and get ahead.
Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Seafaring can be lucrative – the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months’ work – but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.
I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people’s places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.
A lot of people have asked me what’s it like being an American player in Europe. ‘Do you have to earn more respect because you’re American?’ But I don’t think it’s like that at all. I think if you’re good, you’re good. They don’t care where you’re from or anything like that.
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.
Oh sure, I really miss the changing seasons, because in Los Angeles you don’t really get that – and I feel like New Yorkers – and, really, all East Coasters – they really earn their good seasons. They earn when the weather’s hot; they earn when the leaves start to change.
I know you’ve got to earn people’s trust, and you’ve got to earn it day after day after day.
Nobody in the developing world is going to take, as an answer to their aspirations, the developed world’s reply: ‘Sorry, you can’t; we’ve already used it all up.’ To earn the right to look the developing world in the eye and start this conversation, we need a reassessment of how we live and what we want.
My dad came from quite a poor background, so we were made to understand the value of money from an early age, and because of that, I always wanted to be self-sufficient and earn my own money.
I don’t want to adhere to any particular image. I have tried to bring in variety to my characters. But then, only a few actors have managed to earn this tag of a romantic hero. Many have aspired to get such a label. So I am not complaining.
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow – not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother’s place is in the home!
If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they’re owed, but I don’t expect them to be paid more than they earn.
It’s common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children.
My first typewriter cost me $75. I can’t tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that’s all right.
I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?
Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.
The average hedge fund manager is going to earn zero per cent in extra return.
The stories I’m interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.
You need to understand how you lead, and in my case it is through my actions and the way I bring others into the game and also how I am able to form relationships. I am somebody who can earn people’s trust, and that’s crucial to how I try to lead the team.
I want to earn a reader’s capacity to be moved.
I don’t get paid for what I do in public places. So I invest the money I earn in galleries back into doing the stuff I passionately want to do on the street.
You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
The fact is that Medicaid doesn’t even serve well the medical needs of people who should be its principal focus – Americans who are poor in large part because their chronic health problems leave them unable to earn a stable income.
I was forced to earn some extra glue and made the hysterically shortsighted decision to pose for photos in very tiny and colorful swimwear for a fitness magazine, that would become the fuel to many a comical fire in my clubhouse environments over the years.
Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.
A neighbour saw me, came round, and said I could earn another tenner if I did their garden. It wasn’t long before I was doing everyone’s gardens in the area and had my own little business. It got to the point where I even started employing one of my mates, who I paid 4 an hour.
When people ask me, ‘Should I earn the same money as the men?’ No, I don’t believe I should because they’re on a bigger scale than me, they have more fans, are more popular.
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man’s work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.
Street art belongs on the street. But I’m a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.
Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, ‘I do music’, you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
I think every woman should have the skills and confidence to be able to earn a living. A working woman is happy because she has goals beyond herself and her needs.
Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers.
Whenever rent controls or increased tenants’ rights are raised, naysayers wail that doing so will cause landlords to flee the rental market. Firstly, that is a canard: if a landlord charges ВЈ1000 for a room, and you tell him from now on he can only charge ВЈ900, he won’t decide to instead earn nothing.
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best.
I had to earn everything. So to have an opportunity to be a primary perimeter option on the offense is really something that I really enjoy.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
I can’t say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.
There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan’s son. Yes, I am his son, and I’ve never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you’re sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.
I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called ‘Earn to Learn,’ where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift – midnight to eight A.M. – and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don’t feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: ‘What an easy way to earn a living.’
When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
Money isn’t automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you’re doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.
I don’t give a damn about the money. I earn my living well enough.
I wasn’t supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn’t supposed to be interviewing Romney’s sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.
I really live a simple life and don’t need very much to feel good and happy. Don’t get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.
You can’t have bad without good. You can’t have right without wrong. You can’t have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, ‘Fantastic Four.’
You have to make sure the players know to be accessible, and that’s part of their job. That’s why you earn a lot of money. There’s a public relations, fan-friendly part of it.
Money is important, but the most important thing for me is to play football, and then I’m happy. OK, you want to earn a good amount of money to be secure, but if I chose money, I would go to Russia and already have a lot more. I like to play football, and that is it.
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
I started watching English news channels and would repeat after the anchor. Since coaching classes were expensive, I joined a call centre where, after undergoing training for a month, I quit. I followed this strategy in 15 BPOs. I could earn money and learn English at the same time.
As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.
I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.
Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they’re good at where they can earn a living.
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
I don’t need David Haye and his antics to earn money.
Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!
I was a professional gambler. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn’t really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things: like, I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
I earn a lot of money in England doing voice-overs, especially in documentaries. Turn on the Discovery Channel here, and you’ll hear my voice a lot. It subsidizes my vice of acting in the theater.
One of my daughters wants to act, but none of them sing – well, one of them sings but she’s got some ways to go. I love her acting. I’m actually trying to put her in some classes and everything so she can learn the art of acting. I don’t want her to get no parts because her dad is Ginuwine. I want her to earn it.
It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow.
Some libertarians say, ‘Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.’ But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn’t earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.
Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.
You have to earn your place and work hard.
Stage is definitely my home first and foremost – I still feel like I’m yet to earn my stripes on set.
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
In some places, women get paid 75 percent of what men earn for doing the same job, working the same hours, and I do not believe that is right.
I got to world champion, No 1-rated fighter in the division and managed to earn from the defences.
My mom was not able to buy us the expensive Air Jordans, so if I wanted something that was a little bit nicer, my brother and I, we had to go earn money for it.
My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
I’ve got friends who want money but don’t want to do anything to earn it.
I understood I would have to earn respect. I was coming to the best team in the world. You have to put aside all your accolades and pride. It doesn’t matter if you were good in Europe. I was OK with that.
You sort of start to slowly earn more respect from the players. You have to get used to being there and know that you belong. Mentally, that’s one of the hardest parts.
Music videos are like tools that young artists use to earn respect from their peers, to ‘represent.’
When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.
Many argue that graduates earn a ‘premium’ because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that’s why I’ve always advocated a progressive taxation system – so if people do receive large salaries, they pay more income tax.
At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a group called Keg Brando and His Kegliners. We organized a little band, but it didn’t last long and didn’t make any money.
I’ve always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
I’ve got to bring it every night and earn the right and trust from my coach and teammates to be able to make an impact on the game.
I can earn money any time but I shouldn’t lose my respect.
I moved to Braddock in 2001 and started a program to help local youth earn their GED and find jobs.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible.
You can’t take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.
It’s a huge high to be able to earn a nice living doing the thing I love most – making comedy.
I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.
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Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely?
At the start, you don’t earn a great deal, so you have to work other jobs if you want to play football. When I was at Doncaster, I couldn’t solely do football. I had to work; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to live.
I was surprised I won the award because I’ve always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I’m an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.
I was keen to earn my own money from an early age. I had a job as a paper girl in my local village when I was about 11 – and when I was a bit older, around 15, I was a waitress.
The dominant advertising advantage of Clinton, with spending of 10 to 1 over Trump, reinforced the perception that she was trying to buy, rather than earn, votes.
I cannot put pressure on myself that I have delivered a Rs 100 crore film and now I have to give it again or it will not be successful. Films that earn Rs 50 crore or Rs 60 crore are successful, too.
Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.
When I was 30 or so – by that time I had become an assistant D.A. – I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages – below the poverty line for a family of two. That’s unacceptable.
In the international contest of ideologies, it is not assured that ours will win; we have to earn the winner’s laurel generation by generation. One way we earn it is by living our values as the world watches.
I’ve had injuries in the past and I’ve always said that we earn our money when we’re injured, because it’s the hardest time. Playing football is the easy part because you’re enjoying it.
I felt that I should become a film actress first, and then come back to serials and earn good remuneration from it.
When I was making short films, I didn’t see a way to give them a wider reach or earn revenue out of it.
If you want trophies, they don’t get given to you, you have to earn them, you have to play well in big games.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.
I figure when you get married, it doesn’t matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.
When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
It’s a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what’s right.
In the Eighties, I was everywhere. It was hard, because you didn’t see much of your children. I missed out on that. People make sacrifices – doctors, long-distance lorry drivers – and that was mine. I wasn’t left money, I had to go out and earn it.
I earn everything that I get.
Many people – especially those people who earn livings by convincing editors and bookers that rich and influential strangers consider their thoughts and opinions interesting – have ideas about who should or should not run for president.
It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
I don’t work to earn my livelihood anymore.
What a company’s been earning doesn’t mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it’s going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that’s how you make money.
Lyft is focused on the customer – the driver – as GM is. I’ve talked many times about our goal being, ‘How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?’ It’s a very common goal of putting the customer first.
There’s an assumption that women don’t start companies that earn more than X amount of dollars, or that have more than X amount of users, and Bumble is now really growing into one of the main players if you look at all the mainstream social-media platforms.
I have to earn re-election. That’s the way I see it.
Respect and consistency, as hard work during the week is the only way to earn your place.
Players earn their wages, their livelihoods, and their right to compete to win things out on the pitch and not off it.
Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others’ hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday.
I am a free man. I don’t need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
The secret’s out: New York’s Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.
We were spoiled in many ways, but we were always taught to understand the value of the dollar. If there was something we wanted, we had to earn it. Even in college, we were very fiscally responsible. I had 300 bucks a month; anything I wanted beyond that, I had to work for.
We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we’re getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.
Of course, I’d like to earn Jonathan Ross’s money, but I don’t have sleepless nights wondering when someone’s going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.
I’ve just always wanted to try to earn respect.
I have always really loved clothes, although I am glad to say that my tastes have mellowed somewhat over the years. When I first played professionally and started to earn big money, almost everything I bought was by Versace.
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
‘Stars Earn Stripes’ was one of the best experiences of my life.
You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it’s just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
Many unhoused people work full time but earn starvation, unlivable wages. Some struggle to access mental health services or substance use treatment, making earning a consistent and stable wage nearly impossible.
First, I only get earthen lamps during Diwali, and I urge everyone to do so, so that people who make these diyas can earn money and have a good Diwali. Also, I celebrate the festival with special children. I take homemade sweets for them like halwa or jaggery and spend some time with them.
There’s a lot of crazy stuff in this league, and you got to go out and you got to earn your role out every year.
Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can’t afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.
As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren’t going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it’s only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person’s life.
For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation’s problems. He hasn’t been working to earn reelection. He’s been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour.
Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.
The combination of Cantor and eSpeed will earn more money and be more profitable than we ever were before September 11.
People in the NBA, as far as Europeans or international players, they respect them now. I didn’t have any respect from anybody. I had to earn my way.
You earn playing time on the practice floor.
I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom’s hand and earn money.
Our people work more, earn more, spend more. Here they work less, gain less, and spend less, but they are happy! That’s what I think. Also, I haven’t seen people here drink much, unlike Kerala, where it’s almost like bread and coffee for them!
Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald’s.
Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your delicate constitution, amounting to a caution against playing on traditionally male wavelengths.
I take pride in everything I do. I don’t want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It’s an ongoing life’s work.
By helping New Yorkers turn their greatest expense – their home – into an asset, Airbnb is a vehicle that artists, entrepreneurs, and innovators can use to earn extra money to pursue their passion.
We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she’s more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let’s discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
I don’t really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.
Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, ‘Oh I choose this job,’ but most of the time we’re just taking the job we can get. We don’t just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that’s the one we’ll take because we’ve got to pay the rent.
I hate when people say, ‘Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.’ That’s nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that’s never made.
I hadn’t worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.
I’m very confident about my ability to earn votes in every neighborhood.
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
When I first met my husband, he had a very good job – company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff – the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.
I think there are a lot of good players in the top 20, top 30 that are top-10 players. You got to get there. You got to earn it.
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
In America, we make a promise to seniors: After a lifetime of working and contributing to this country, you’ll earn the benefit of a secure retirement, good health care, and peace of mind in your later years. To me, that’s a commitment we have to keep.
I’ve often said that far more sensible than a ‘make poverty history’ campaign would be a ‘make wealth history’ campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.
I use my American Express card whenever possible because I earn Air France points, which have taken me to America in business class. I like top quality so I will pay well for an item if I think it is finely made, but I’m not extravagant.
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people’s behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
I don’t want to fight in UFC just because I was a champion in UFC. I’m gonna have to earn it. It’s gonna have to be how I fight.
I’ve been donating all the money I earn from the TV shows to a charitable trust.
Whether they’re in uniform today or retired, I’ll fight to make it easier for our fire fighters and their families to earn a good living with dignity on the job, affordable health care, and a secure retirement.
My personal expectations are to be a starter, and I’m going to fight to earn that position.
I’d like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I’d like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there’s a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.
I don’t know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor’s degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
I feel like I’ve cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I’ve had a successful life. I feel guilty that I’ve never done a day’s work in my life!
It is better for a youth to earn living selling pakodas instead of being unemployed. Making pakodas is not shameful; what is shameful is comparing such a person with a beggar.
I work to plan long-term and try to earn results short-term.
I do have to earn a living, so I’m conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I’m not enjoying a story, the reader won’t either.
I just try and earn my right to get on top of the bowlers, and that is how I play every game.
Success won’t descend on you. You have to earn it.
About tidying up a toy box, you should let your kids experience the selection process by touching all of their toys. It’s also important how they throw away their toys. They can earn a stronger sense of valuing things when they throw things away with respect and appreciation.
When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don’t think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.
I want to earn a contract. I don’t want a contract because in the next year I’m a free agent, so they might look to tie me down.
My parents had a small piece of land to earn a living from, but my father always wanted to educate his children.
Within two months of Patreon’s launch I starting making $6,000 a month for my work with the support of my ‘patrons.’ The platform makes creators legitimate members of the workforce and is really helping to break the idea of the ‘starving artist’ by allowing them to earn a regular income.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
I am working as BJP President in Delhi. I earn money by singing, acting, dancing etc. I have a brand value.
Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.
When you lose everything, then you have something. It’s exactly the opposite because everything that you have, it’s not really yours. What is yours, you don’t need to earn. It’s yours by right.
If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.
It’s a great honor to be named to the Eastern Conference All-Star team as a starter. It’s great to earn respect from your teammates and coaches, but to also get that same respect from other players around the league and then the fans – that is special.
Even if you’re lucky to have a play on Broadway like ‘Chinglish,’ you don’t necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.
Smaller tax refunds are not a bad thing – they’re a sign that people are keeping more of their money as they earn it, rather than letting Uncle Sam keep it under his mattress for them.
Unease is the wrong word to describe our wealth. I make my sacrifices and never think I am not allowed to earn so much. But I know I am lucky and I must use my platform to help those who need support.
Though both films and television sell emotions, let’s not deny that it’s way more challenging for small-screen actors to earn their respect.
I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn ВЈ208,000 a year.
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day’s work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
We’re going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children’s future and buy a new house.
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!
Finance industry executives earn an annual income, including benefits, grants and bonuses, that can reach over eight million shekels a year.
What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty – that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.
We’re dealing with men here. What we’re trying to do is help them become the best players they can be, and we’re all collectively trying to win games. So what I always tell people is that the way you earn these players’ respect is, do you make them a better football player?
My mentality has always been focused around the mindset that you have to earn everything. So even if you get told that you’re going to play, I take that with a pinch of salt and respect all the comments, but for me, I have to earn my place.
There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report ‘Generation STEM,’ high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys’.
Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.
Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning.
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn’t just because of what I do out there.
When society wouldn’t give me an opportunity to earn a minimum wage because I was a convicted felon, Vince McMahon gave me an opportunity to earn more money than both of my parents had made in their lives combined and become an international star.
I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.
Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.
Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?
Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don’t earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.
I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything – and become anything.
At the end of the day, it’s me who has to earn the right to play more.
In my humble opinion, again, to perform at Alabama, you must earn the spot and not have it given to you. You have to fight like crazy to keep the spot and that it’s not guaranteed – it’s week to week – and you’ll play in a way that they have a chance to win a championship.
We earn enough here in Dortmund.
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master’s degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she’s a brilliant second-grade teacher. I’m in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.
I don’t crush the kids. But I do want them to know that they have to earn what they get. I’m not like Jimmy Piersall’s dad or anything. I mean, I tell them I’m happy if they just do the best they can. My parents were that way with me.
As soon as I finish a job, I’m like, ‘Geez, I got away with that, and I got paid all right!’ But then you get to the press junket, and I’m like, ‘Oh God, this is where you earn your money.’
We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn.
I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
It’s not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go – you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator – just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.
It’s not always easy to make a name for yourself. You’ve gotta earn it. Because nothing’s ever given.
Since we didn’t use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people’s trust.
To have guilt you’ve got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don’t feel the guilt you ought to have. And that’s what The Firebombing is about.
People say getting fit is 90% diet and 10% exercise, but that’s bollocks. If you train hard you earn the right to a chocolate bar.
That’s easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I’ll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.
Work is sacred. It is not just a way to earn money or gain power, though it may result in both. Work is a vehicle for testing out our gifts and talents and using them to explore their meaning.
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
My motto is, ‘Just earn it.’
I’m hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.
I know what I can earn, I know what I can do.
What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living – and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.
Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.
It took me a long time to not think of the universe as a judgmental debit-credit system. I haven’t completely shaken it, but I no longer think that I am overdrawn with God. Grace is not something you earn; its always there. I find this idea a lot more fun.
I can bet Salman doesn’t earn that much… well, at least nowhere near me.
It takes longevity to earn respect.
The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title ‘trophy wife.’
That mindset never changes. It should never change. If you’ve been in the league for 14 years or been in the league not even a day, you should have that mindset that you’re going to go out there and prove yourself and earn a spot.
When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.
Remember that government doesn’t earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
It’s a great feeling to earn a place in the Olympics.
Given Miami’s unique role in Airbnb’s roots, I’m particularly proud of how South Floridians have embraced home sharing as an opportunity to earn supplemental income and catalyze economic development in their communities.
You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don’t trash talk you.
Good shows have to get made in the first place… The regular ones don’t excite me as an actor but at the end of the day, I have to work to earn my bread and butter.
I think you have to every day as an NFL player. I think you have to go out there… and show that you earned the right to be an NFL player and you earn the right every single day by your work habits, your preparation and the way you perform on the field.
If you speak to girls who play football alongside lads, they’ll tell you that you almost have to earn the right to play with them. It’s annoying that you have to do that, but once you’ve done it, the barriers are down.
Tax what you burn not what you earn.
For people who earn on an average about RS 15,000 a month and who travel a lot, if the salary is late then the landlord will throw him out. I know how life is after that because I have been there.
The Gujarat government knows what’s in the interest of consumers. When they plan, they ensure they can save every single rupee or earn every single rupee for the state government and bring power at lowest cost to the consumer. They are tightfisted in their approach.
We take men’s obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don’t do it all, women just don’t marry men who are reading ‘I’m Okay, You’re Okay’ in the unemployment line.
You can’t apply the term ‘lucrative’ to dancing, but it does earn me a decent living.
In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the others, and she didn’t necessarily have to earn the cash prize.
Unlike singers, who can earn for years by singing one song, we artistes have to be on our toes all the time. If I write something funny or create a joke in the morning, there will be someone narrating my own joke to me the same evening.
I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.
All told, these profit levels have put the world’s five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year’s end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil’s bottom line is going up, so are Americans’ energy costs.
I work hard making music – that’s how I earn a living.
I earn – I’m not – I don’t want to claim I’m a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I’ve published several books, I’ve never been able to get a permanent teaching job.
I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it’s tougher to be in your 20s because you’re expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.
I always wanted to train and when I got in the business, I never thought about the money I might earn.
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
I was just proud of myself that, even under extreme stress and adversity, I was still able to do my job and do it well. And still able to earn an income while in prison.
Every football player, or every person who works, wants to earn money to help their families.
You earn the title ‘parent.’ I have done absolutely nothing to earn that title.
At the end of the day, I earn a living by creating music and not sharing it with anyone because I am my own master. I know my worth.
Being in a scenario where you’re thinking, ‘I can’t do what I want to do due to the financial burden that comes with some of it,’ makes you think, ‘Well, I could go and do an after-dinner speech every night.’ I’d probably earn more than I could in track-and-field. But that’s a dangerous scenario to get yourself into.
To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one’s life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.
I love taking the new ball, but you’ve got to earn that right.
I think free agency is something you earn.
Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people’s abilities to earn a livelihood.
I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that? I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.
Nantucket’s English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea’s dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.
Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can’t.
I wasnt bothered about winning tournaments at the beginning. I just wanted to win enough money so I could stay on the tour, earn a living for my family. But then when you start to win, you just want more and more.
Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.
I never thought that I would become Nia Sharma. I never imagined I would end up earning this much money. I never thought I would earn this much in my entire life.
Every film is made for a commercial purpose – to earn money at the box-office.
Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
I felt I had to earn my way. I had nobody to support me.
You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
There are a lot off very good college players after a year or two who may not want to play that third year of college football, may need to earn a little money, support the family.
I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we’ve played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball’s gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
It’s getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.
That feeling you had in the lower leagues, the hunger you need to win and even earn wages, has never left me.
Australia always gives a tough fight, and that’s why every player wants to perform against Australia. When you perform against Australia, England, and South Africa, you automatically earn more respect.
Confidence is not something you store in the fridge and pick out. You earn it by your performances, by your training, how you feel.
My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That’s the way it should be, right?
I turned down more offers to be Jack Paar or Johnny Carson or Steve Allen before the people on the ‘Donna Reed Show’ gave me a chance to earn while I learned.
In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say you are. You have to earn it and re-earn it and re-evaluate it from time to time.
The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.
I’m aware that not everyone approved of how I played, but I don’t think any apologies are in order. Early in my career, I decided that it was worth it to do whatever was necessary to earn the extra split second it takes to make a pass or shoot the puck.
As a black woman, I’ve always had to work hard to earn my respect as a musician – and as a young woman, too. As a writer, in certain sessions or certain rooms people think, ‘Who’s kid is this? Who’s this little girl?’ I’ve had to prove myself.
In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I’ve been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.
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.
It’s true that football is a job, and one works to earn money, but when there are so many feelings involved, it’s hard to change clubs just to earn a bit more cash. I respect every player and their decisions, but that’s my feeling.
Our brands – Nike, Converse, Jordan Brand and Hurley – are loved by customers all over the world. But we never take that for granted; we know that every day we have to earn their trust – by serving them completely and adding real value to their lives through products and experiences.
I didn’t come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.
Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
I didn’t want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
Confidence is a vital part of any team and any squad. You have to earn that though.
My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children’s school fees.
When my father saw that I was interested in following such a career he had many reservations. His feeling was that there was no chance to earn a livelihood unless I played jazz or something similar.
In China you have to be in peak form because you need to do well. You earn a lot – I had a huge salary – but then you have to prove you are worth it. Every match is a challenge and I played next to or faced some truly great players.
My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it’s only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came – in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree – I was ready.
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
Players are fundamentally the same – regardless of what they earn. They want to improve and want to be part of something.
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor’s ability to earn a living.
I’m not someone who puts their money in a fund that earns 2 to 5 percent a year. I’m a man who tries to change things, move something with my money, to create jobs and, of course, at the same time earn more money with it.
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.
Just saying ‘I want this and I want that’ doesn’t do it. My boys share and share alike in the income that the organization brings in, so that teaches them the lesson: If you work, you can earn some money. That’s how life is; it’s the American way.
I don’t want to give up pop music. It’s how I earn my living. I’ve got a family to take care of.
I want to earn it, I don’t want anything given to me.
Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.
I think women should be paid the same as men. That’s for sure. But what would you say to a woman coming in after you’ve been in the job for 15 years when they’ve done absolutely nothing to earn it? I don’t think that’s right.
That’s the beauty of country music – you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you’re on the road with big name acts, you realize there’s no easy way to the ‘Promised Land’ in this business.
I did not choose Tottenham for the money. Believe me, I could’ve gone elsewhere to earn more, even in England.
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families – families stretching to make every dollar count.
Just remember that what you earn, grow, and work hard to preserve is your money – it is your money – not the government’s.
Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences – they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help – you can do a lot of good if you want to.
I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn’t making money, but making an impact.
You worked every day to earn what’s on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn’t change it. I would not change it for anything.
In today’s knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I’ve never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I’m an actor. It’s really important to me, and I really care about it.
I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.
I don’t want to rely on one thing. Being good at everything, that’s how you earn your spot on the floor.
It wasn’t success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together – within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people’s goal.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a former player or you come up through the video room, whether you come from college. You have to earn that trust from NBA players every day.
I mean you have to work hard to earn respect and make people respect you. When I come to the presence of any room or any place, people give me the most high respects and I’m gracious and appreciative of that.
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
I feel I am incapable of making Hindi movies. But I don’t mind acting in them just to earn my bread and butter.
The crown must constantly earn citizens’ appreciation, respect and trust.
Have a working spouse, because you won’t earn a living from writing – not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time.
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
I remember talking to an architect and he said ‘I am making so much money I don’t know what to do’ – I am in a business where you don’t have an idea from one end of the year to the next how what you are going to earn and it is not like a salary that you can guarantee.
