Frans van Houten Quotes
Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully.
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
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I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be the artist to throw everybody under the bus. I don't spend lots of money on houses or lots of cars, but I do spend money on security and they never find me.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.
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My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.
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Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully.
