Frans van Houten Quotes
Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...
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Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.
