Frans van Houten Quotes
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.
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I am very happy working for my European brands. My legacy isn't going to be a museum. Yet I would be very good at it. It's so painful. It's like everything - the same old guys - Herzog & de Meuron, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano - they don't pick original people.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
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Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.
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Lumileds is a highly successful supplier of lighting components to the general illumination, automotive, and consumer electronics markets, with a strong customer base.