Frans van Houten Quotes

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

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• I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Light
  • Everyday
  • Blue

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Life
  • Die
  • Fall

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Child

• We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Future
  • Write
  • I Write

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Energy
  • Ugly
  • Economic

• You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

  

  Gary Cole
  • You
  • Know
  • Everything

• I have a very short attention span.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Attention
  • Very
  • Short

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• We're all in this together. Choose love.

  

  Jo Dee Messina
  • Love
  • Together

• Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Time
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• Who doesn't want to shoot for 'Vogue?' I remember updating my Facebook status to say 'Doing 'Vogue' today', it was so exciting. I thought it would be really intimidating, and I don't like photoshoots, but that was the most relaxed one I've done.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Today

• Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated world. This is one lesson we can learn from photographs, and especially from those of the last 25 years: images exist not to be believed, but to be interrogated.

  

  Andy Grundberg
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

  

  Nicklas Lidstrom
  • Today
  • Games
  • Retiring

• You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Today
  • Horse