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I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.
Peter Steele

Bad, Learned, Guess

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Life, Good, Hard

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.
Arlen Specter

Care, Help, Social

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage, Romantic, Political

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

Teen, Put, Fair

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.
Lillie Langtry

Less, Nor, Shall

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.
Bruce Springsteen

Person, Far, Until

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.
Brett Favre

Thought, Honor, Maybe

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

Birthday, Before, Gave

We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
Iain Duncan Smith

Young, System, Promise

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

True, Last, Punk

I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.
Shaquille O'Neal

Family, Win, While

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

Health, Saying, Same

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
Ted Allen

Winning, Friend, Thought

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

Place, Hollywood, Instead

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.
Peter Steele

Point, Longer, Fulfilled

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

Society, Simple, Through

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

Him, Walk, Actor

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.
Jane Pauley

Life, Women, Around

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

Cannot, Broken, While

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
Gary Numan

Two, Friends, Fame

You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.
Chris Hemsworth

Character, Start, Realize

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

Business, Country, Why

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

Power, State, Principle

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.
Helen Reddy

Marriage, Legal, Mean

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
Barbara Kingsolver

Life, Mother, Saying

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.
Paul Gascoigne

Game, Giving, Stand

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

Music, Business, Left

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

Work, Great, Deep

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.
Tippi Hedren

Him, Before, Why

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