Frans van Houten Quotes
Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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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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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that they started overtakes them, and they lose the ability to direct things anymore, and they become essentially riders on a wild stallion, and wherever the movement goes, wherever power takes them, they have to go along.
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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
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New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected in 1996. Among the states are California, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois.
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Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.
