“There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.” WayArtistWrittenHappeningsPaidContractsStreaming Author:Sean Parker
“I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.” ArtistPayRecordsPaidContractsUnusualRoyalty Author:Jo Stafford
“Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.” MenLooksDoeMadeRealSelfPurposeSocialExistenceNeededPromisePerfectionPaidSalvationDenyContractsProceduresBourgeoisSelectedBasementsReal SelfSocial Contract Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.” UsedActorsPaidInvestmentStudiosContractsCommodityLiteral Author:Ben Affleck
“I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas John Slaughter. The Andy Griffith Show hired me to play Thelma Lou. I only worked when they called me. I would do an episode in two days and I got paid $500. After all the federal, state and local taxes were taken out and then my agent's commission I only got $200 some dollars per episode.” TwoStatesPlayShowsTakenTaxesSeasonsPaidDollarsLocalsAgentsContractsTexasEpisodesSlaughterTwo DaysWaltAndy Griffith Show Author:Betty Lynn
“I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me - but to say, "I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina's wine country," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.” ThinkingGivingYearsCountryMomentsKidsLife IsNiceGiving UpResearchPaidWineExpensesContractsBowlsTicketsUnemploymentStampsSplendidSurrealNice ThingsSuper BowlArgentinaAnother YearFood StampsSurreal Moments Author:Adam Richman
“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.” LooksIdeasBigsKidsNextSocialBuiltPaidBlessContractsFactoriesTerrificGreat IdeaGod BlessSocial ContractHunk Book:A Fighting Chance Source: A Fighting Chance
“I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.” ThinkingLongSometimesFeelingsEarthRememberSpiritMotherFatherWinningStrongForceMovementCommitmentPaidUnionsWorkersDuesBudgetsContractsFarmsStrong Feeling Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.” HumansSelfConditionsCostDignityPaidStrikesSelf RespectContractsWagesHuman DignityBoycottWorking Conditions Author:Cesar Chavez