Frans van Houten Quotes
Sustainable solutions based on innovation can create a more resilient world only if that innovation is focused on the health and well-being of its inhabitants. And it is at that point - where technology and human needs intersect - that we will find meaningful innovation.
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.
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I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
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Sustainable solutions based on innovation can create a more resilient world only if that innovation is focused on the health and well-being of its inhabitants. And it is at that point - where technology and human needs intersect - that we will find meaningful innovation.
