Contracts Quotes - Page 13

• I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Heart, Giving

  "Author interview: Barbara Kingsolver". www.librarything.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Gary Player and others have said all of us should all give Arnold Palmer a percentage of our earnings because without you there would be no television contracts and without you it wouldn't be as good for anyone.

  Charlie Rose

  Player, Giving, Would Be

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I have this thing built into my contract that the club has to put up a sign that says my act "contains the strongest language and material content imaginable," but, believe it or not, I still get complaints. People want you to be what they want you to be. If they see you on TV and that's what they like, they want you to be EXACTLY like that when they see you live. And if you're not, some of them get upset.

  Joe Rogan

  Believe, People, Upset

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• We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Book, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2955, Delphi Classics

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• Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Powerful, Simple

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• ... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?

  John Gibbons

  Dog, Tired, Eye

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• [Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

  Ken Blanchard

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Knowing

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• I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

  Marion Ross

  Film, Adore, Wanted

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• I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.

  Chasey Lain

  Different, Way, Known

  "Chasey Lain (Adult Star) Talks about her life in and out of the Adult Industry". Interview with John Parks, www.legendaryrockinterviews.com. April 4, 2012.

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• It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Distance, Ambition, Successful

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.932, e-artnow

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• As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.

  Dave Barry

  Long, Heaven, Humanity

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• Food is a part of our contract with life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Life

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• A poet's first contract is with truth.

  Vanna Bonta

  Firsts, Poet

  "State of the Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, 2000.

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• Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work.

  Margaret Hodge

  Government, Competition, Important

  "Parliamentary watchdog: too often private sector contractors' ethical standards found wanting". www.opendemocracy.net. December 10, 2014.

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• Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Coffee, Taken, Party

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1455, Delphi Classics

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• I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Motorcycle, Chance, Bike

  "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

  Rex Smith

  Ideas, Long, Waiting

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Responsibility, Risk, Credit

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.

  Jack Kirby

  Humble, Artist, Simple

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Understand the value of work and know that you get out of life what you earn. Some things have to be taken, its not given to you, they are not handing out multimillion dollar contracts or degrees, you have to use your brain!

  Eric Thomas

  Taken, Brain, Use

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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• They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

  Abe Lemons

  Sports, Let Me, Wanted

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• Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage.

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Children, Party

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Every job in Hollywood is a risk. You don't know, when you sign a contract, if something is going to pop, you don't know whether this or that network is going to support your show. You just show up and do the best work you can do, gravitate towards the best material, you know, and try to make the right choices. And the rest of it is a roll of the dice.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Jobs, Choices, Support

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

  Ben Fountain

  Book, Writing, Years

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There's a joke in the movie...it's got a fairytale ending, and this is a spoiler: Donald Trump does contract HIV. I think people are upset about that, mainly because they feel the reputation of AIDS has been destroyed by associating it with Donald Trump.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Source: screenrant.com

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