Contracts Quotes - Page 5

• I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Want, My Future, United

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• Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Inspiration, School

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• What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Organization, People

  Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (1986*). “Mandela speaks: statements from Nelson Mandela to the people of South Africa”

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• Now that I have confirmed that the Vikings have been seeking to trade me, I have asked for permission to speak to the interested teams. The Vikings have denied my request. If a trade does not happen, then I am asking the Vikings to terminate my contract as soon as possible.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Team, Trade Me, Asking

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• The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Struggle, People

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.

  Gary Bettman

  Feelings, Should, Situation

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• He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Exercise, Giving

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• In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

  Jeff Pulver

  Commitment, Cost, Lost

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• That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?

  Alex Shakar

  Way, Holding On, Problem

  Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.202, Soho Press

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• In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

  Robert Wagner

  Play, Roles, Bigs

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• Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Food, Science

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• Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Perfection, Society

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.498

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• And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

  Thomas Keneally

  Writing, Mind, Trying

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• To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

  Harry S. Truman

  Party, People, Politics

  1956 Memoirs:Years of Trial and Hope.

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• Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

  Les Baxter

  Want, Way, Complete Freedom

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• The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

  Jello Biafra

  Labels, Band, Lasts

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• That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Powerful, Wind, Feet

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• Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Democracies Have, Self, Law

  "What #OccupyWallStreet Must Ask of Corporations and Themselves" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Father, Home, African American

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• In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Loyalty, Meaningful, Believe

  "What #OccupyWallStreet Must Ask of Corporations and Themselves" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Long, Outspoken, Range

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• It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Player, Lasts

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• It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Believe, Book

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• People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

  Jonathan Frid

  Thinking, People, Pay

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• But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Determination, Winning, Race

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