Frans van Houten Quotes
Tech can help population health, make health more accessible, more affordable. Tech can also get people get more included in the economy and contribute and drive growth, and growth and wealth are great contributors to a safer world.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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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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Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.
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The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'
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I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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Tech can help population health, make health more accessible, more affordable. Tech can also get people get more included in the economy and contribute and drive growth, and growth and wealth are great contributors to a safer world.
