Frans van Houten Quotes

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• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Black
  • Painting
  • Lie

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Chinese

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• I won't join another band again.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Again
  • Join

• Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Light
  • Effort

• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Never
  • Take

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Age
  • Story
  • Meaningful

• The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Happy
  • Circumstances

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • History
  • Tell

• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Me

• I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Today

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Want

• I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Movie
  • Football
  • Player

• Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • Women
  • Truth

• Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • Important
  • Society
  • Free

• For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Life
  • Effects
  • Combinations

• Everything that's transported over ground, whether it's people or parcels, will be impacted by autonomous vehicle technology.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • People
  • Technology

• By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Health