Eighty dollars a share is certainly a fair price for this business that we suspect is not nearly as damaged as the media coverage would suggest. It becomes increasingly difficult for J&J to follow Boston's lead on price.


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REBECCA DE MORNAY
I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely sm...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That au...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless ho...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAEL
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAEL
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAEL
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...
MADAME DE STAEL
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one pr...
MADAME DE STAEL
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAEL
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things ...
MADAME DE STAEL
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAEL
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAEL