#paid

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition. ↗

— Sumner Redstone

#competition #even #journal #much #murdoch

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#actor #calls #college #cops #experience

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#american films #being #big #career #exciting

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#appealing #attention #going #interesting #long

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#hire #hired #interest #money #often

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#available #because #carry #commercial #far

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#called #commodity #commonly #hire #instead

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine. ↗

— Kid Rock

#i #imagine #lobbies #more #paid

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one. ↗

— Will Rogers

#enter #i #last #nation #paid

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#any #attention #bad #closed #deal