Frans van Houten Quotes
When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I'm cranky.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
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The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.
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I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea.
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I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.
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When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.
