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I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes. -- Jennifer Aniston
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. -- Noel Coward
I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck. -- Gregory Meeks
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. -- Marlon Brando
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. -- Bela Lugosi
It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in. -- Adam Kinzinger
No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss. -- Kristin Armstrong
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker. -- Mitt Romney
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment. -- Robert Kiyosaki
As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same. -- Charles B. Rangel
Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? -- Thomas Sowell
I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you. -- Joan Rivers
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo. -- Brad Pitt
My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.' -- Joe Biden
Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone. -- Wendy E. Long
My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies. -- Jim Parsons
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck. -- Patton Oswalt
The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy for me, they are doing me a favor. It's not just a one-way value exchange; it is an internal morale building opportunity. -- Gerald Chertavian
Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. -- Gerald Chertavian
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family. -- George Jones
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy. -- Morgan Freeman
We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short. -- Valerie Jarrett
I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked. -- Ricky Schroder
I'm not looking for a paycheck. -- Howard Stern
I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck. -- Alice Englert
I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck. -- Joe Lando
Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck. -- Marissa Mayer
Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. -- Pras Michel
I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck. -- Drew Carey
Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better. -- Carlos Alazraqui
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If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. -- Ernie Hudson
In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck. -- Tim Cahill
I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck -- Mamadou Sakho
The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck. -- Gilbert Perreault
Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure. -- Andrew Card
I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero. -- Miles Teller
The last thing I wanted was a big paycheck but no inspiration or support. -- Vonda Shepard
The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck. -- Monica Crowley
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. -- Pat Williams
Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in. -- Adam Kinzinger
You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens. -- Anthony Bourdain
You get a bigger paycheck if you are the hero. There is something good about it. -- Dolph Lundgren
I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck. -- Marisa Tomei
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. -- Adam Clayton
I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour. -- John Grisham
The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it. -- Howard Tayler
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. -- Adam Clayton
We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls. -- David Kim
I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. -- Mitch Albom
This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled. -- Michael Storm
Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus. -- Oprah Winfrey
Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services. -- Cliff Martinez
How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck. -- Marco Rubio
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck. -- Shawn Achor
Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. -- Anna Quindlen
Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled. -- Suze Orman
I got my first paycheck as a cast member in the Broadway production of 'HAIR' when I was 16 years old. -- Vicki Sue Robinson
I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck. -- Rachel Sklar
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. -- Charles Bukowski
For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look? -- Kathy Ireland
Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do. -- Jim Rohn
No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. -- Emily Giffin
Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible. -- Bernard Hopkins
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck. -- Carl Hiaasen
No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. -- Emily Giffin
Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets. -- Jonathan Banks
There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck. -- Michelle M. Pillow
There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be. -- Oprah Winfrey
I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck. -- Heather Donahue
A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right! -- Bobby Jindal
Saw that I could make more money in one pot than what was in that entire paycheck selling a week of office supplies -- Doyle Brunson
I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck. -- Patsy Kelly
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while youre waiting to kick the door down. -- Joe Madureira
I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl. -- Joe Manganiello
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down. -- Joe Madureira
The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck. -- Todd Stocker
When I was young, people lived paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment. -- Robert Kiyosaki
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. -- Markus Zusak
Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need? -- Dan Ariely
For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.. -- Charles Jaffe
When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount. -- Don Ward
Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from. -- Kat Dennings
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me. -- Gary Shteyngart
A life spent waiting for your paycheck, measured out in work hours...A lifetime spent buying everything retail while selling oneself wholesale - L'amour Existe (1960) -- Maurice Pialat
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. -- Newt Gingrich
71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make. -- Karl Rove
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business. -- Alex Berenson
There's nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you're worth. There's the rub. It usually does. -- T. Harv Eker
When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority. -- Peter Lynch
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work. -- Natalie Goldberg
My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.' -- Patrick Schwarzenegger
Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives. -- Ken Robinson
I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me. -- Conor Oberst
In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck. -- Virgil Goode
There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent. -- Anna Kendrick
Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck. -- Samuel L. Jackson
Youre perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month. -- Jerry Moran
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them. -- Macaulay Culkin
If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life. -- David Kim
You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month. -- Jerry Moran
We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules. -- Jim Leyland
I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job. -- William Petersen
Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate? -- Ward Churchill
No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent. -- Ron Paul
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy. -- Will Oldham
If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck. -- Katherine Schwarzenegger
I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea, -- Gaby Hoffmann
I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea. -- Gaby Hoffmann
My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model. -- Peter Fenton
You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. -- Max Lucado
Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent! -- Waite Hoyt
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job. -- Nancy Grace
Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck. -- John Seagall
We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck. -- Lindsey Graham

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