Frans van Houten Quotes
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Midi is my hobby.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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I would love to do another 'Jack Reacher' movie.
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.
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When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.
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When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.
