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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Taken
  • Serious
  • Human

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Start
  • Chinese

• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Today
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Together
  • Player
  • Animal

• 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.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Constitution

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• At home, I warm milk, stir in two teaspoons of honey, and drink it in a teacup. It's so basic yet pure; I love it.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Home

• I'm not playing, am I? That tells you how I feel.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Health
  • Play
  • Baseball

• The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • You
  • Religion
  • Living

• The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than the width of an atom. As such, gravitational radiation has not been directly detected yet. We hope to change that soon.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Moon

• 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.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Future
  • Health