Frans van Houten Quotes
Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I would like to see America some day.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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TVXQ is our respected sunbae. Their vocal skills are strong, and we've studied much of their performances and choreography.
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Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
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2015 has been a crazy year for me, and Spotify have supported me right from the start. It's an honour to be their Breakout Artist of the year, and I'm super excited to see what we can do together in 2016!
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Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.
