Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.


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EOIN COLFER
Prior Time Warner directors are going to be looking askance at recommendations coming from these fiv...
FRED LANE
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
H. M. WARNER
He still has his velocity, ... His command is a big thing. He's missing with his changeup. His last ...
CHARLIE MANUEL
I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shri...
EOIN COLFER
We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next s...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL
There comes a point in life
When you are neither brittle nor bitter,
And every time someon...
NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA
Thus far our strategy has failed to achieve our political objectives,
HEATHER WILSON
And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the ...
JERRY GARCIA
I don't know what Icahn thinks he's doing. Icahn has gone out on a limb. Even if he succeeds in gett...
RUPERT MURDOCH
I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know)...
ANTHONY HOPE
Murdoch thought he had a deal with Time Warner, then, at the very last minute Time Warner went the o...
DAVID LONDONER
I think it's his drive. He wants to achieve a lot. He has some goals that he doesn't talk about.
HAL MCRAE
Now, he has opportunities that were probably heretofore unreachable to him with his devastating hand...
DR. THOMAS GRAHAM
Time Warner recognizes the value of Maine's work force.
JACK CASHMAN
He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you abo...
ED HOWE
Algeria is not breaking up.
AHMED BEN BELLA
Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy....
MAX MCKEOWN
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished pow...
BARBARA CASTLE
The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border.
JARROD AGEN
He's ahead of his time. He's always been hip, grown up and into the music. Whatever he wants to do, ...
JUELZ SANTANA
Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whini...
RANDY PAUSCH
You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable." - Graham Warner, hus...
DEANA J. DRIVER
We want to achieve pest control by using the minimum amount of input.
APRIL BORDERS
All the Time Warner companies have enough scale to compete on a global level. Warner Brothers gets h...
FRANK BIONDI
It's fair to say that AOL Time Warner leapfrogs [those companies] ahead of everybody else and I thin...
DAVID LONDONER
Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.
ARIEL SHARON
Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL
He's trying to increase his leverage on Time Warner, trying to force them to do something a little m...
PETER JANKOVSKIS
Time Warner doesn't comment on rumors and speculation.
ED ADLER
The AOL Time Warner statement speaks for itself.
ZENIA MUCHA
Time Warner does such a good job of rolling out new products.
BRENDA KINNE
The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER
In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Although their ideologies are very different, the strategy Howard Dean employed could be the strateg...
STEPHEN FARNSWORTH
She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cle...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY
If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, y...
MOHSIN HAMID
You don't make me feel like you used to.
That's why I'm leaving
That's why people leave ea...
HENRY ROLLINS
You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything...
RICHARD SIKEN
when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again....
DAVID LEVITHAN
And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.
JUNOT DíAZ
The pest control industry is continually growing as prevention has become the strategy of choice.
CINDY MANNES
I see a proud Colombia with sufficient authority to challenge other nations to control their demand ...
ANDRES PASTRANA
Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Schroeder wants to be in control but it's difficult to see SDP still in control,
ASHLEY DAVIES
If you just broke it up, the stock would be higher. In Time Warner, we're saying the conglomerate co...
CARL ICAHN
You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man fo...
JEAN NIDETCH
[Butler] is one of the great black Republicans. It's nice to have a person of that stature to look u...
DEREK MOSS
Taking management control in a medium-sized bank would provide a lot of value after the lender is re...
ANDREW CHAN
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
WILLIE NELSON
This action by the Federal Trade Commission marks another step forward in our strategy to become mor...
WALTER HIGGINS
[Where does that leave Butler?] We're trying to get Jerry ready, ... brings something else to the ta...
BARRY ALVAREZ
Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON
He's gone from not breaking 40, to breaking 40 almost every time.
HANK BONTRAGER
It's time to focus on execution of strategy.
GARY BLACK
I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
JAMES TAYLOR
He didn't look like it was his first time facing hitters. His breaking ball was better than what I r...
ADAM MELHUSE
That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
DALE EARNHARDT
Because he spent a lot of time on the development of the new machine in the winter tests, Nicky had ...
MAKOTO TANAKA
Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
MARGARET MITCHELL
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
His breaking ball worked really well. Seven of his 12 strikeouts, the batter went down looking, didn...
JEFF TAGEANT
The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.
NADIA SCRIEVA
I don't see any great plan to actually enhance the value of Time Warner in the long term.
PETER JANKOVSKIS
to me it's hard-work, he works very hard to achieve what he wants.
ANDY WELLS
One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
DONALD JOHANSON
It's interesting this announcement comes so soon on the heels of the Time Warner deal,
JOE LASZLO
It's rarely a good idea to divide a small business. It's not like dividing up Time Warner where some...
GIL MCBRIDE
A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN
We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.
MAX CLELAND
Jared was in control of the match the whole time and stuck his guy.
BOB FREUND
You think Warner is sexy?"
...
"I do like his face.
TAHEREH MAFI
Every time I thought that, (Butler) would come down and make a great shot.
DEMOND GARTH
Every time we play Butler it rains, so that's not something new for us.
JOE BRESCHI
The whole strategy of Ford and Firestone is to limit the recall and do as much damage control as the...
CLARENCE DITLOW
Even if the perpetrator is angered enough by your refusal to go along with his demands, to where he ...
BARRY TATE
Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if th...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if th...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE JUNIOR
The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
We're lazy because God in His kindness and love has given us ample time to achieve our purpose. If H...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
You have to put him on the wall in certain situations push him all the time to be better because he'...
JACQUES LEMAIRE
My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind...
CHEECH MARIN
We were young,?;didn't know?;all the rules at the time, and ended up breaking some of them as a resu...
DUANE PROPES
Up until recently AOL was not a big believer in broadband. They didn't have the cable access. Now, w...
BRUCE KASREL
I am confident that we can execute our plans successfully and achieve the objective of about £2bn r...
JOHN PLUTHERO
I am confident that we can execute our plans successfully and achieve the objective of about £2bn r...
JOHN PLUTHERO
With the ruling, Icahn can get just one board member at best.
HWANG CHAN
What adult wants to admit to bladder-control problems? Yet researchers estimate that 1 out of 4 wome...
ANIELA ORR
The manager has unfolded his plans to me. He explained to me what he wants to achieve in the end. We...
RUUD VAN NISTELROOY
How To Achieve Greatness;Envision the next 10-20years & see possibilities.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Time Warner management has offered several reasons for not completely separating the cable business ...
CARL ICAHN
Time Warner came this morning with very positive news, enough to boost demand among media shares,
GIRI CHERUKURI
Time Warner retains that information to administer retirement, compensation and other benefits infor...
KATHY MCKIERNAN
It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.
COLLEEN HOOVER
To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that ...
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The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, movin...
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Yes, you do."
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CORMAC MCCARTHY
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failur...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER
I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
YANCY BUTLER
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
YANCY BUTLER
I'll try anything once.
YANCY BUTLER
I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I&#...
YANCY BUTLER
I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of t...
YANCY BUTLER
I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
YANCY BUTLER
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him...
YANCY BUTLER
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,...
YANCY BUTLER
Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
YANCY BUTLER
To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
YANCY BUTLER
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from t...
YANCY BUTLER
A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER
Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
YANCY BUTLER
I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
YANCY BUTLER
I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER
I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
YANCY BUTLER
Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER