Contracts Quotes - Page 21

She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.

Thomas Dolby

Art, Stars, Media

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The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

Thomas Hobbes

Science, Past, Men

Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

Helen Keller

Summer, Sweet, Memories

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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

Business, Past, Derivatives

"Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

Warren Buffett

Business, Writing, Men

Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.

Corey Feldman

Kissing, Years, Kiss Me

"Actor Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No. 1 Problem for Child Stars, Contributed to Demise of Corey Haim" by Steven Baker and David Wright, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.

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My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.

Doug Flutie

Football, Nice, Years

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At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

Janis Ian

Song, Writing, Artist

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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

Vanilla Ice

Thinking, Years, People

Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 6, 1998.

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I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.

Jamey Johnson

Jobs, Thinking, Way

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For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

Diane Lane

Film, Fine, Print

"Diane Lane on Untraceable". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 25, 2008.

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My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

Chris Pine

Dad, Crazy, Grandmother

"Pine Was Destined To Act" by wenn.com, November 12, 2010.

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At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

Lucy Powell

Responsibility, Simple, Vote

"Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

Sean Parker

Artist, Way, Streaming

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Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

Bob Riley

Agency, Government, People

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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.

Amity Shlaes

Children, Writing, School

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When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Matthew Sweet

Waiting, Labels, Records

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I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

Regina Spektor

Want, Way, Chance

Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.

John Tesh

Jobs, Half, Said

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If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.

Justin Theroux

Years, Tvs, Seven

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

Rod Taylor

Jobs, Real, Men

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If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Dick Wolf

Television, Vote, Structure

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You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.

Michael Weatherly

Jobs, Would Be, Opera

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People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

Tony Benn

Creativity, Ambition, Order

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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

Vance Havner

Christian, Faces, Lord

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