Frans van Houten Quotes
The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
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I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.
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I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
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Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
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I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
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The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.
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The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies.
