I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

- Ben Elton

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.

- Donald Knuth

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

- Colm Keaveney

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

- Catharine MacKinnon

Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

- Cory Gardner

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

- Christine Pelosi

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

- Christie Hefner

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

- Christie Hefner

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

- Carine Roitfeld

The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

- Bobby Heenan

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

- Albert Einstein

I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to work hard to earn the 'for Blake' votes.

- Blake Farenthold

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

- Bill Mauldin

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

- Bernie Sanders

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.

- Ben Bernanke

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

- Anna Magnani

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

- Alan Rosenberg

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

- Alan Hovhaness

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

- Antonya Nelson

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.

- Abhishek Bachchan