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When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
Ben E. King

Put, Week, Name

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
Bobby McFerrin

Music, Time, Home

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.
Jon Secada

Making, Sure, Though

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

Music, Time, Waiting

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.
Chantal Kreviazuk

Life, Good, Great

Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.
Pete du Pont

Done, Him, Control

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.
Gloria Stuart

After, Quit, Universal

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.
Juice Newton

Working, Run, Pursue

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
Terry Southern

Best, Writing, Studio

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

Chance, Deal, Sign

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.
Steve Albini

Once, Mistake, Band

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.
Steve Albini

Strength, Same, Wait

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
Cathy Rigby

Gold, Heroes, Million

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
Bryn Terfel

Best, May, Different

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.
Eric Dickerson

Life, Nothing, Short

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.
Eric Dickerson

Nothing, Talk, Means

When Jackie got his big contract at CBS and was putting together what turned out to be almost a stock company of players, he remembered Frank and said, 'Get me that kid who played the jail sketch.'
Audrey Meadows

Together, Said, Big

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

Time, Great, Nice

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
Tom Coburn

Government, Sunshine, Sometimes

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

Put, Wait, Behind

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.
Maria Menounos

Amazing, Making, Later

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
David Selby

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
Thomas Keneally

Mind, Try, Write

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
David O. Selznick

Down, Accept, Sit

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
Roone Arledge

Work, Yourself, Why

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.
Mike McCready

Run, Natural, Happened

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.
Malcolm Wallop

Crazy, Acceptance, American

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo

Marriage, Good, Fool

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
Dalton Trumbo

Working, Picture, Industry

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
Les Baxter

Freedom, Complete, Capitol

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