Contracts Quotes - Page 4

• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Silly

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• It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Long, More Money, Producers

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• Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

  Roy Ayers

  Artist, Records, Music Is

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• Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage, Intelligent, Feminist

  My Life ch. 19 (1927)

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• I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Pregnancy, Boston, Use

  "Gisele Bündchen: Earth Mother". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.vogue.com. March 15, 2010.

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• We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.

  John W. Thompson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Space

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

  Terry Wogan

  Imagination, Television, Radio

  "Terry Wogan turned down for BBC2 job in 1965 by David Attenborough" by Jasper Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2016.

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• It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

  Angela Carter

  Sunshine, California, Democratic

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• I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Thinking, Motorcycle, Looks

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• I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio

  Dalton Trumbo

  One Day, Motion Pictures, Term

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• An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

  Tom Coburn

  Sunshine, Practice, Government

  "Tracking Federal Hurricane Aid Poses a Challenge" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2005.

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• Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

  Conan O'Brien

  Eggs, Timing, Timer

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• I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

  Pietro Mascagni

  People, Littles, Way

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• I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

  Hermione Gingold

  Writing, Needs, Actresses

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• I don't pitch for contracts.

  Curt Schilling

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• I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

  Angela Lansbury

  Mean, Awards, Age

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• TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

  Tom Brokaw

  Fake People, Fickle, Television

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• A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Hands, Bonds Of Love

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• We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Success, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.70

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• Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Couple, Dad, Responsibility

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• The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Government, Make Sense, Suspects

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• [T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  School, Men, Ideas

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• The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Government, Crime, Duty

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• Understand that relationships are more important than contracts. Business deals are relationships between people. The signed piece of paper is important, but it's merely the result of the relationship, not the cause. If the relationship crumbles, the contract won't save you, although it could be very lucrative for your lawyer.

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, People, Important

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• There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.

  Moby

  Jobs, Night, Play

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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