Contracts Quotes

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

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Silly

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• Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

  Glenn Danzig

  Real

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Food, Science

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

  Jello Biafra

  Labels, Band, Lasts

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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