Contracts Quotes - Page 2

• Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

  Glenn Danzig

  Real

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• I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Oil

  "U.S. report cites Russians in oil-for-food probe" by Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

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• Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

  Nolan Ryan

  Moss, Houston, Agents

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• I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

  David Selby

  Appearance, Grooming, Personal Appearance

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

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• Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

  Tom Selleck

  School, Class, Guilt

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• Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

  Clay Aiken

  Sweet, Opportunity, Years

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• Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Parent, Firsts, Ifs

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• The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

  David Gill

  Retirement, Issues, Rolling

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• Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Kids, Ideas, Looks

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.215, Metropolitan Books

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• The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

  Walter Lippmann

  Power, Principles, Firsts

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Moving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2011

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• The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

  Elia Kazan

  Actors, Dinner, Firsts

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• I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

  Gloria Stuart

  Years, Quitting, Seven

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• I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

  Gene Tierney

  Birthday, Hollywood, Sparks

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• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  Walter Winchell

  Movie, Hollywood, Definitions

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• One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

  Herbie Mann

  Mistake, Needs, Records

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• Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

  Diane Cilento

  Earning, Lots Of Money

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• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, People, Checks

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• Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Studios, Majors

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• Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

  Esther Williams

  Husband, Drinking, Gambling

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• In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

  Sharon Gless

  Player, Mentor, Talent

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• By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

  Chris Noth

  Wall, Hiking, Climbing

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• In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

  Lauren Hutton

  World, Firsts, Lawyer

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• I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

  Jo Stafford

  Artist, Records, Pay

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• I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

  Juice Newton

  Running, Pursue

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