Contracts Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player in that position. Why pay a big cap number for a guy you might only have for a short time And then there's the reality that the veteran and the agent would probably want to be on the open market anyway, figuring they'll get more money that way. The system is not conducive to making a deal for a veteran.

  Marty Hurney

  Team, Player, Reality

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• Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Children, Night

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• Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, Succeed, Workplace

  "Management Experience Is Paramount" by Eli Broad, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2010.

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• If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

  Eli Broad

  Jobs, Poor Management, Unions

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• When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Paris, Dancer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Commitment, Agreement

  "Coalition deadlock as Nick Clegg and David Cameron veto each other" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2012.

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• My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mother, Artist, Age

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• If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Artist, Years

  "Simply Simon". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2007.

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• Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.

  DMX

  Waiting, Groups, Columbia

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

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• Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.

  Richard M. Daley

  Country, Business, Agency

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Divorce, Rights, Wife

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• State sanctioned marriage is a civil contract period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Religious, Party, Agreement

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Order, Down And

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Bad Relationship, Law, Long

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.11, A&C Black

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• As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.

  Tippi Hedren

  Believe, Looks, Psycho

  "Tippi Hedren Reveals a Darker Side of Hitch in ‘The Girl’". Interview, frontrowfeatures.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.

  Jessie J

  Ideas, Would Be, Records

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

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• At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Business, Drama, School

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• Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 6, 2005.

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• I view it as a real competition. We're in a business where, you know what, there's no babies here. You go out, win the job and take it. I've been told by management, for the most part, that we're going to play the best people. Obviously, you've got to consider stuff like contracts - that's a reality of the game. But still, when it gets down to it, we're going to try and pick the guy that deserves to win the job.

  Willie Randolph

  Baby, Jobs, Real

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• Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Sophie, Broke, Break

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Giving, Age

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.424, Anchor

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