Frans van Houten Quotes
We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.
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I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
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We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.
