Contracts Quotes - Page 6

• I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

  Ursula Andress

  Rebel, Scared, Wanted

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

  Tommy Chong

  Teenager, Radio, Firsts

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• First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Would Be, Firsts, Episodes

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• I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Years, Three

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• I've been here for eight years and I'm going into my 13th season. There's nothing I'd have liked better than to retire as a Jet. But the reality is, they released me. My goal now is not to break the bank. I did that twice already with my original contract and a restructuring. It's about winning a championship, and from this point forward, I'm going to go to the team that gives me the best chance to win a Super Bowl.

  Kevin Mawae

  Team, Winning, Reality

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• Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Sports, Football, Fighting

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• Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 6, 2005.

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• If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player in that position. Why pay a big cap number for a guy you might only have for a short time And then there's the reality that the veteran and the agent would probably want to be on the open market anyway, figuring they'll get more money that way. The system is not conducive to making a deal for a veteran.

  Marty Hurney

  Team, Player, Reality

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• Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal.

  Kema Chikwe

  Good Luck, Dedication, Mind Blowing

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Marriage, Sex

  "You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1990.

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• Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Children, Night

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• I view it as a real competition. We're in a business where, you know what, there's no babies here. You go out, win the job and take it. I've been told by management, for the most part, that we're going to play the best people. Obviously, you've got to consider stuff like contracts - that's a reality of the game. But still, when it gets down to it, we're going to try and pick the guy that deserves to win the job.

  Willie Randolph

  Baby, Jobs, Real

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• Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Giving, Age

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.424, Anchor

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• Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Sophie, Broke, Break

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative contract. Even the player's union is on board. There are only 450 jobs in the NBA, and the one-and-done protects veterans' jobs.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Jobs, Selfish, Player

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Bad Relationship, Law, Long

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.11, A&C Black

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• I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

  Marchette Chute

  Book, Privilege, Deadline

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• And the fact is - is if you lower - if you lower taxes, you don't have to wait for the money to get to the states, the money to get out in contracts. You send a signal immediately, and so businesses start making decisions.

  John Boehner

  Decision, Waiting, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Order, Down And

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• State sanctioned marriage is a civil contract period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Religious, Party, Agreement

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce since Eve was his second wife.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Divorce, Rights, Wife

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.

  Richard M. Daley

  Country, Business, Agency

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• Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.

  DMX

  Waiting, Groups, Columbia

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

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• If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Artist, Years

  "Simply Simon". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2007.

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• My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mother, Artist, Age

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