#signed

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

#contract #dollars #five #hundred #i

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#council #demand #hungarian #king #ministers

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#freedom #independence #lasting #make #members

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#behind #body #comes #concern #conform

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa. ↗

— Leopold Trepper

#december #directive #hitler #known #number

I have never designed a language for its own sake. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#i #language #never #own #sake

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#any #care #country #doctor #down

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. ↗

— Enid Nemy

#building #corner #could #dead #designed

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#ago #become #brought #candidates #created

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#book #bush #clinton #deal #get