Frans van Houten Quotes
The entire dynamics of the lighting market are changing. Value is moving toward systems and services.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
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I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.
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I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.
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The entire dynamics of the lighting market are changing. Value is moving toward systems and services.
