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You sign an agreement you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
Actor
Boxing Promoter
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Record Producer
Cleveland
Ohio
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