Frans van Houten Quotes
If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.
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This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.
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What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
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He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.
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If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.
