Contracts Quotes - Page 35

• 24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.

  Will Hutton

  Children, Erosion, Years

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• We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.

  Jerry Jones

  Cowboy, Way, Relief

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• Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

  Prince

  Records, Slavery

  "Prince: ‘Record Contracts Are Just Like — I’m Gonna Say the Word – Slavery’" by Rachel Brodsky, www.spin.com. August 9, 2015.

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• The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts... that DMT elicits 'typical' alien encounters?

  Rick Strassman

  Reading, Dmt, Volunteer

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• Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

  Vince Gilligan

  Jobs, Writing, Hands

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Father, Long, Long Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.

  Wes Walz

  Pride, Race, Play

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• Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Communication, Mold, Stories

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Crazy, Pressure, Ends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Book, Twilight, Gone

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Selfish, Party, Divorce

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• Of course I miss playing for Manchester United. I played there for six years and that’s a long time. I am still interested in watching Manchester United and, you never know, maybe in the future I could return to play there. It’s always possible. I want to fulfil my contract here but, in the future, only God knows. I will not say I am not happy here at Real Madrid. I am really happy and everyone knows this is my club but, of course, I miss Manchester United, the boss, the players, because I left family there.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Real, Player, Years

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• The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

  Anthea Turner

  Lucky, Celebrate, Late

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Creativity, Mean, Past

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• No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Struggle, Common Sense, Foundation

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• Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

  Alain Badiou

  Love Is, Two, Narcissist

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down to the last book, I have a chance to do what I want to do - specifically, something set in New Orleans.

  Robert Asprin

  Book, New Orleans, Years

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• I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

  Paul Ryan

  Atheist, Philosophy, Views

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• Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.

  Martin Denny

  Parent, Age, United States

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• Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

  Epicurus

  Independent, Justice, Engagement

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Winning, Years

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us deep into these spaces - but the same way you know a Hollywood movie won't end after thirty minutes, you carry in yourself the implicit contract that the novel won't throw you out of itself 'til the very end. That bulk of pages is a form of consolation, of security.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Space, Mind

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

  Patricia Arquette

  Years, Want, Strange

  Source: collider.com

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• I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

  Sergio Leone

  Reality, Ideas, America

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• One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.

  Eddie Vedder

  Long, People, Way

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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