Bonus quotes
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
-- Aaron Neville -
the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
-- Akio Morita -
I don't think bonuses are always bad.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.
-- Bob Uecker -
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Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?
-- Brad Warner -
If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.
-- David Cottrell -
The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.
-- David Simon -
I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.
-- Don Zimmer -
You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!
-- Ed Lauter -
Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.
-- Elizabeth Pena -
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
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Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
-- Geddy Lee -
Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.
-- Gracie Allen -
Every game I played was a bonus.
-- Graham Roberts -
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I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer. [Lat., Et idem Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]
-- Horace -
Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.
-- Hugh Jackman -
Just to love, that's enough; being loved, that's a bonus.
-- Jack Hyles -
Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
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Either you like a person or you don't like a person. I don't have to love somebody to work with them. I'm a professional person. But when you get the bonus of really liking someone and really connecting with them and really enjoying them, it's a fantastic thing.
-- Julianne Moore -
No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.
-- Kevin Hearne -
One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.
-- Louise Hay -
Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.
-- Lucas Grabeel -
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My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.
-- Luke Bryan -
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus....
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
-- Mark Twain -
You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.
-- Michael Kiwanuka -
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The last time I cried? My godchildren went to see Taylor Swift in concert and got to meet her. They literally ran toward her and hugged her, and it was amazing. I got big bonus points for it. I'll remind them when they're teenagers.
-- Michelle Dockery -
Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.
-- Mike Myers -
America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
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I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.
-- Oren Peli -
That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
-- Parminder Nagra -
The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.
-- Phil Donahue -
For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.
-- Queen Latifah -
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This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.
-- Rob Corddry -
I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.
-- Stuart Law -
Bonus: I now knew what Erin meant by lickable abs.
-- Tammara Webber -
In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.
-- Thomas Frank -
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The most important thing in my life is Christ. He’s more important to me than winning or losing or whether I’m playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.
-- Tim Howard -
I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.
-- Tim Vine -
I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.
-- Trey Gowdy -
Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.
-- Wayne Gretzky -
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So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of money. Or, if not money, then, if you're in academia, it's prestige. It's a different kind of currency. And there's this unmeasured dimension of all jobs, which is whether it's improving the world.
-- Cathy O'Neil -
I don't really think about my work in terms of whatever money it makes. That's just a bonus. I'm just going to do the work anyway, so whatever comes back is good with me.
-- Kevin Huizenga -
The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.
-- Mallory Ortberg -
It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.
-- Alexander Gustafsson -
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The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.
-- Carol Grace -
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
-- Ron Suskind
