Frans van Houten Quotes
In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone
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To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.
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If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
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I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.
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In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.
