Frans van Houten Quotes
Price erosion in components is quite fast. If you can capitalize on that by bringing products to the market faster, you will actually gain a better margin realization.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I find the business world hard.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
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The future is purchased by the present.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.'
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When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
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The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
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I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage - there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.
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I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life...
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I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?
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You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
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Price erosion in components is quite fast. If you can capitalize on that by bringing products to the market faster, you will actually gain a better margin realization.
