Frans van Houten Quotes
If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.
Quotes to Explore
-
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
-
I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
-
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-
You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
-
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
-
Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
-
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
-
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
-
There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
-
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
-
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
-
I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
-
Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
-
If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
-
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
-
I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.
-
Keeping score is for games, not friendships.
-
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
-
It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.
-
If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.
