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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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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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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You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
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When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.
