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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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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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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My height might be a disadvantage in some parts of my game, but it is a big advantage in rushing the passer.
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In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.
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The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
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Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
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People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
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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.
