Contracts Quotes - Page 30

• It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

  Robert South

  Imagination, Fancy, Judgment

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.319

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• I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

  Ozzie Smith

  Player, Thinking, Umpires

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• Thus, from the first divine contract, and the pure region where truth abides, a continuous chain of mercies and light extends to humanity, through every epoch, and will be prolonged to the end of time, until it returns to the abode from which it descends, taking with it all the peaceful souls it shall have collected in its course; that we may know that it was Love which opened, directed and closed the circle of all things.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Light, Circles, Soul

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• I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

  Jenson Button

  Mistake, Made, Spending

  "Jenson Button drinks in memories before joining F1's 200 club" by Giles Richards, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

  Kurt Busch

  Organization, Leaving, Easy

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• I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

  Julian Cope

  Thinking, Way Forward, Ideas

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• When I started producing it was right at the beginning Channel 4 in England. Nicholas Nickelby which was my first credit as a producer was Contract 001 at Channel 4 - that was the start of independent production in England and the emergence of an independent sector.

  Colin Callender

  Independent, Credit, Firsts

  Source: deadline.com

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• I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

  H. G. Wells

  Honesty, Lying, Civilization

  "Love and Mr Lewisham". Book by H. G. Wells, Chapter 23, 1899.

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• It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

  Norman Mailer

  Falling In Love, Book, Love You

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• What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin' chicks and said, "Why don't you go with me?" So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, "Yeah, they need me here." I wound up at Universal as a contract player.

  Clint Eastwood

  Girl, Motivation, Player

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Law, People

  "15 Questions with Grover G. Norquist". Interview with Rebecca F. Elliott, www.thecrimson.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I got the chance to stay with the Yankees. Going elsewhere, I was going to hear the offers, but the Yankees made it really tough.

  Jorge Posada

  Yankees, Chance, Tough

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• No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players' contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Player, Rights, Should Have

  "A-Rod Statement Denies PED Use, Promises To Fight MLB Ban In Federal Court" by Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Winning, Law, Ideas

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• I like the laid-back, polite, respectful courteous personality cowboys have. Guys almost lay down their life for you if they're your friends. You exist on a handshake rather than a signed contract.

  Jeff Kent

  Cowboy, Personality, Guy

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Party, Divorce, Selfishness

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love Is, Epidemics, Disease

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• You can't live on the hope of a television contract and play in a stadium with nobody there.

  Fergus McCann

  Play, Television, Stadiums

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• I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

  Cristin Milioti

  Cutting, Hair, Expectations

  Source: collider.com

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• At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Debt, World

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's the only thing he'd directed. But, he loved it.

  Gena Rowlands

  Cutting, Editing, California

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

  David Paul

  Rewards, Wells

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• A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.

  Eric Berne

  Running, Long, Doe

  Eric Berne (2010). “What Do You Say After You Say Hello”, p.234, Random House

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• As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.

  Angela Lansbury

  Kids, Player, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

  Jonathan Horton

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.

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