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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

Agatha Christie

A lot of companies in the midst of Linux development have put their plans on hold because they don't want to be in a situation where they would have to owe SCO some royalties, ... So you can see why there's an axe to grind.

Mark Sunner

Certainly whenever the province is getting high royalties as a result of high natural gas prices on the North American market, they are obligated to share that royalty with the citizens who own it.

Hugh Macdonald

The economics here are such that Bolivia can improve its revenue stream by increasing its taxes, royalties and by taking over ownership. But for these companies, it's barely going to make a difference in their economics.

Pavel Molchanov

Uranium left a deadly legacy on the Navajo Nation, which (Shirley) has called genocide. The tribe is giving up millions of dollars in royalties to keep history from repeating itself.

George Hardeen

We have taken the Hotel and Restaurant Owners Association to court to pay us royalties. They are equivalent to the cost of a cup of tea every day of the year. But added up across the country and the millions of restaurants in India - it's huge.

Achille Forler

Currently the federal government does share royalties with coastal statesmore than $3 trillion to date, in fact. Changing this amount only increases the budget deficit and diminishes the benefit the rest of the nation receives from these national resources.

Scott Milburn

They touted their ability to turn inventors' ideas into profitable products. But fewer than 1 percent of the customers who invested in their services got royalties from their patents that amounted to more than they paid the promoters.

Lydia Parnes

Whether they will be splitting royalties and how they will track downloads and payments are important questions the parliament will have to answer.

Mukul Krishna

Monsanto is desperate to recapture royalties from its GM seeds, and terminator is the perfect solution because it would be able to biologically ensure that farmers have to return to the market every year.

Lucy Sharratt

I must admit I was hesitant. What I found disarming is they were delightful people, very respectful of me and my music. They decided to start paying me artist royalties, which they weren't contractually obligated to do. They recognized that I created all this music, and it was a huge asset for them.

John Fogerty

I have paid the royalties to national and am not sure whether they will refund me. Nevertheless, my feeling is that parents would rather have their money than the cotillion right now. And if we wait a few months to see what the interest is, perhaps we could continue it and readjust the schedule.

Rebecca Miller

The royalties that [Cornell] would otherwise be getting are going to other parties as a result of her animus towards my client.

Martin Singer

Royalties were to be suspended (on up to 87.5 million barrels). There have been a lot of things published. This (rule) is spelled out in the act.

Greg Pilcher

It's kind of unbelievable that [the patent] has such a wide-ranging use because it covers so many technologies, Anybody who does anything with rich applications will have to pay royalties to the company.

Bola Rotibi

The state has demanded maps from mining companies from the beginning, so there is a good map library. But, those maps were mainly a way for the state to collect royalties. That means that some shafts were not mapped.

Ginger Kaldenbach

Every contributor got $100 and two copies of the book. The rest of the royalties went to Holy Apostles, for the soup kitchen.

Ian Frazier

Judge Roberts moved NTP and Research in Motion closer to a settlement, and that's what investors were hoping for all along. NTP thinks past and future royalties may be as much as $1 billion, but our view is they could provide a discount to get the deal done, get the cash up front, and avoid a reexamination of the patents.

Susan Kalla

It will speed this farce up a bit. SCO was saying that because of the patent counterclaims, they needed discovery, more depositions. SCO has no money to pay damages or royalties due to dropping sales figures, so it doesn't matter to IBM to drop them.

Pamela Jones