Frans van Houten Quotes
In the Asian marketplace, we need to come out with products every nine months, not every two years.

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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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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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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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A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.
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There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.
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Everyone should have a great leather jacket in their wardrobe. It is perfect to wear with a T-shirt and jeans and great pair of high tops.
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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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In the Asian marketplace, we need to come out with products every nine months, not every two years.