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(2005 Academy Awards acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ray (2004/I)) I guess we got to do it again. "Oh, ah!" Yeah, you`re ready. That`s for Ray Charles. Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. I got so many people to thank tonight. First I want to start it out with Taylor Hackford. Taylor, you took a chance, man. I mean that love for Ray Charles was deep, down in the earth. It`s cracked open. And it`s spilling. And everybody`s drowning in this love. I thank you for taking a chance on this film. And thank you for waiting 15 years to get me to do it. I want to thank you. I want to thank Crusader. I want to thank my agents. I want to thank Rick Kurtzman. I want to thank Kim Hodges. I want to thank `Steve Smooke`. I want to thank my managers, Jaime King (Jaime Rucker King) and Marcus King. Let`s live this African-American dream. It`s beautiful. I`m glad I`m with you. I ain`t never leaving you. I`m glad I`m with you. I got a chance to meet a whole lot of people, experiencing this. And other people I want to thank, I want to thank my sister. Four feet, eleven inches of nothing but pure love. I want to thank my daughter for telling me just before I got up here, "If you don`t win, dad, you`re still good. I`m just ... I see Oprah (Oprah Winfrey) and I see Halle (Halle Berry). I just want to say your names. I want to talk to you later. Both of you. Because Oprah got -- allowed me to meet somebody by the name of Sidney Poitier. And, yes, Sidney Poitier said, "I saw you once. And I looked in your eyes and there was a connection." And he says, "I give to you responsibility." So, I`m taking that responsibility tonight. And, thank you, Sidney. This is probably going to be the toughest part of this speech. My daughter shares my grandmother`s name, "Marie." My grandmother`s name is Estelle Marie Talley. She`s not here tonight. And this is going to be the toughest part. But she was my first acting teacher. She told me to stand up straight. Put your shoulders back. Act like you got some sense. We would go places. And I would wild out. And she would say, "Act like you`ve been somewhere." And then when I would act the fool, she would beat me. She would whup me. And she could get an Oscar for the way she whupped me because she was great at it. And after she whipped me, she would talk to me and tell me why she whipped me. She said I want you to be a southern gentleman. She still talks to me now. Only now, she talks to me, in my dreams. And I can`t wait to go to sleep tonight because we got a lot to talk about. I love you.

- Jamie Foxx

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.

- Jim Rogers

On my recent trip around the world, I bought shares of companies in places like China and Chile, countries I feel have great potential.

- Jim Rogers

I`ve just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: `You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?` I tell them I wouldn`t do it unless I understood and had an interest.

- Anna Kournikova

While there are still many legal issues to be sorted out, we believe the market incorporated a worst-case approach in taking the shares down over $9 or over $1.2 billion in market cap.

- Barbara Allen

It`s good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don`t know if it`s the best way to work. I really shouldn`t discuss this.

- Dorothy Stratten

(In Stockholm Ericsson shares were barely changed on the news at 185 crowns.) This is drastic, ... the job cuts are greater than expected.

- Doug Smith

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I`ll often simply say, `let`s pray about this right now.`

- Thomas Kinkade

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.

- W.H. Auden

We`ll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

- Drew Carey

On the qualities she looks for in a man: "Independent thinking, intelligence and insight, sense of humor, mellow attitude, good kisser, patience, good cook, independent interests, secure self-esteem, good with children, kind heart (no bad boys), someone who treats me with respect and shares my love for travel."

- Lisa Marie Scott

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

- David Richardson

Essentially, it was not a good deal for Onyx as a company and for Onyx`s shareholders. We would have had to issue a huge number of shares, and the net effect would have been grossly diluted shareholder value.

- Robert Craig

There is a fraud going on in this country where offshore hedge funds dwelling in an unregulated environment are selling massive numbers of shares short and doing various schemes not to cover (their short positions), ... In the process, companies are getting destroyed, technology is getting destroyed, and hard working Americans are getting screwed.

- Christian Smith

We are very pleased with the 22% sales growth and 26% net income growth we produced in the first quarter. Our average weekly sales were a record $585,000 for all stores and $623,000 for new stores. Our 13% comparable store sales growth this quarter marked our ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit comparable store sales growth, and despite the fact that our average store size continues to grow, our annualized sales per gross square feet increased to an all-time high of just over $900. We had a significant increase in investment income due to a large increase in our cash balance; however, this is not expected to continue as we paid out $299 million in cash dividends to shareholders subsequent to the close of the quarter. Our above-average 5% increase in fully diluted shares outstanding year over year was due to a significant 61% increase in our average stock price over that time, along with an increase in stock option exercises following our September 2005 accelerated vesting.

- John Mackey

We are pleased to partner with Destiny Health. It`s refreshing to find a health insurance company that shares our commitment to enhancing the health and wellness of the greater D.C. area and we feel the Vitality program is a great, motivational complement to our premier services and facilities.

- Jonathan Adler

If a dog doesn`t put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn`t happen you are only keeping an animal.

- Enid Bagnold

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

- Jean Genet

We are also thrilled to promote Rolando Blackman, one of the all-time Maverick and NBA greats, who brings five years of coaching experience on the player development side, ... Ro also shares in our vision but more than anything he is very loyal. He wants to help bring a championship to Dallas.

- Avery Johnson

The shares are probably as bad as they`re going to get but don`t smack as an attractive investment opportunity at these levels, either. We prefer ANA.

- Michael Newman

It`s good public relations (and) investor goodwill, ... (It) shows that we`re standing by our shares, that we hope that the individual and institutional community follows suit.

- Richard Peterson

What he had as a driver is a quality he shares with many of his compatriots, ... He was canny.

- Frank Williams

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

- Stephen Harper

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

- A. P. Herbert

He who divides and shares is left with the best share.

- Adam Skolnick

What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that`s what we did.

- Al Hershey

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

- Ali Naimi

I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.

- Ali Naimi

OS X is sweet: it`s simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

- American Ballet Theatre

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

- Amy Collins

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

- Andres S. Tannenbaum

We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm`s output.

- Andrew Harrington

not comment on whether I still have an interest in General Motors or whether I will buy or sell its shares.

- Andy Crawford

(Sporting a stubbly beard and buzz cut, Statham says that he shares some qualities with his character.) I like his suits, ... I like the style of him, but he`s a character created by Luc Besson. He`s a very internal guy. I`m not. I`m a little bit more expressive and I like a bit of fun.

- Andy Shoop

What`s happening now is that the market remains trading at very thin volumes and that can affect prices, even when just a handful of shares are traded, ... The decision of any fund to pull out from certain stock hits the price.

- Annie Besant

Around the world, today`s air travelers demand reliability, flexibility and high-quality service. We know from our previous dealings with them that the SkyTeam members are world-beaters by all these measures, and we`re proud to be part of a global alliance that shares our focus on the customer.

- Aram Rubinson

The reason traders are jumping all over this is because Pershing Square Capital purchased almost 10 percent of Wendy`s International shares to try to force it to sell off their Tim Hortons chain. The company is now doing that.

- Arthur Christiansen

We are excited to be working with an organization that shares our goal of financially empowering women business owners,

- Arthur Schlesinger

Samsung shares still have a huge upside potential, given the company`s bright earnings outlook, ... Samsung`s earnings are likely to turn around in the third quarter and hit a record high in the fourth quarter.

- Ashley Caiafa

Until evidence of an improvement in Eckerd stores and overall trends, we remain on the sidelines with respect to these shares.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

If everyone in the group is a stakeholder, you`re dividing that money in shares a lot more different ways. If you have one artist and a bunch of hired dancers, vocalists, and musicians, they`re getting paid salary, and it becomes a profitable venture sooner, in most cases, with a solo artist.

- Austin Craley

I`m really very proud of the team`s performance. Sarah was a part of many of these wins as a player, so it`s nice that she shares in this. This really is a special team with great senior leadership. Ten of the girls on the team went to our middle school program. It`s just a great tribute to everyone in the program.

- Barbara Barstow

Is the PC dead? I definitely don`t think so. I think there`s a lot of legs left in the PC. We`re going to look at and continue to invest in information devices. I still own 100 million shares in this company, and I`m going to do everything in my power to insure this company`s success.

- Barbara Miningham

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we`re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we`ve found the right person.

- Richard Bach

(about Robert Patrick, his on-screen father in "Bridge to Terabithia") He is the most giving actor I`ve ever worked with. He`s such a big inspiration to me. He`s helpful and shares ideas and, being a younger actor than him, I can learn so much.

- Josh Hutcherson