#tract

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#between #contract #economic #highest #highest order

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue. ↗

— David Gill

#contract #designed #issue #retirement #rolling

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#days #drag #early #had #head

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. ↗

— Danny Glover

#black #called #campus #cleaver #communications

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#attracts #most #only #our #reveals

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#hold #how #knows #noble #people

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. ↗

— Seth Godin

#because #distraction #early #hard #i

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract? ↗