Frans van Houten Quotes
How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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I don't have many friends.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.
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I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
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As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.
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In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?
