#Thinking Quotes
“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.”
Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.
“I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.”
“We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.”
Source : Robert W. Bly (2007). “The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells”, p.39, Holt Paperbacks
“There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.”
“I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.”
“Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.”
“Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.”
“My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.”
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