Frans van Houten Quotes
Government should seek more strategic approaches to developing dynamic, resilient infrastructure. Business must be more creative in offering financing solutions as partners with government, and people must support sustainable innovation as a public policy priority.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I'm a dork!
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!
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You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.
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Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
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The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.
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Government should seek more strategic approaches to developing dynamic, resilient infrastructure. Business must be more creative in offering financing solutions as partners with government, and people must support sustainable innovation as a public policy priority.
