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.
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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.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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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.
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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.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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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.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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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.
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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.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I have a very short attention span.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.
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I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one of the things I do in almost all my books - my protagonist is put through a very stressful situation that tests their strength and their psychological acuity. That's one of the core components of who I am as a writer.
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Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
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As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.
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You're going to face a choice in November. This is a choice between the policies that got us into this
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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.
