Frans van Houten Quotes
Government should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent economic times.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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I often reread books I have written.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
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I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are going to live an amazing life,' and I have.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
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We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.
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Government should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent economic times.
