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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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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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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Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.
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The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
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I'm 100 per cent motivated. I haven't done enough yet in cycling to be satisfied.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40.
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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.
