A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.
We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.
The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.
All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.
When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.
