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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

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

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Paul Getty

Marriage, Business, Agreement

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
Leigh Steinberg

Learning, Happy, Keep

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

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

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

Time, Him, After

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Subject, Outspoken, Believed

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

Money, Government, Nothing

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Long, Words, After

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
Leslie Caron

System, Seven, Studio

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

Problem, Old, Tell

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
Angela Carter

Sunshine, Everyone, Whether

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
King Hussein I

Peace, Future, Between

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
Chris Evans

Life, Good, Movies

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi

Makes, Social, Commitment

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop.
Sylvia Browne

God, Hurt, Someone

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

Agent, Houston, Moss

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.
Tommy Shaw

Sure, Sign, Recording

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
Louise Brown

Book, Brave, Her

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
Tammy Bruce

Good, Health, Death

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
Tom Brokaw

Good, Business, Tv

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
Chuck Hagel

Social, Security, Original

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.
Cobi Jones

Trying, Matter, League

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

End, Guitar, Away

Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.
Glenn Danzig

Nothing, Real, Until

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

Mistakes, Else, Somebody

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.
Al-Waleed bin Talal

Family, Strong, Political

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
Robert Wagner

Play, Big, Days

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
Diane Sawyer

Sense, Commitment, Ordinary

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