Contract Quotes
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When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'
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I'm really lucky to be in the TV industry and to have a regular yearly contract. That gives me security.
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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
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Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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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.
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I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.
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The contract I signed wasn't for three or four years. It was for five years.
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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.
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He got off to a tough start. And having that big contract, pitching at home, can sometimes weigh on you. I don't think he'd admit that, but you really want to start things right, especially being back home, with a new team. And that didn't happen for him.
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The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
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The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.
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I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.
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Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
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Economic policy and foreign policy in Europe have been too liberal. We have failed when it comes to maintaining the social contract, which is the very foundation of the social-democratic social model.
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Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.
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You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.
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The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
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Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.
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You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.
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It was in the back of my mind. I knew once this contract played out, if it had, that I would retire. It’s one of those things where 75% of you wants to be done with it but there’s that 25% that knows you can still do it and still play.
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I work seriously with complete integrity. I never, never, never have offered a part to anyone who didn't deserve it, and I've never not delivered when I do offer a part. My word is better than a contract.
