Frans van Houten Quotes
In the Asian marketplace, we need to come out with products every nine months, not every two years.
Quotes to Explore
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject.
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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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To go back means defeat.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
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There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.
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My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.
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To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.
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A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
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I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.
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What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
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If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.
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Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.
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In the Asian marketplace, we need to come out with products every nine months, not every two years.
