Frans van Houten Quotes
When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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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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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!
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Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
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When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.
