Frans van Houten Quotes
We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
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Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.
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We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV.
