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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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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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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Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
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Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies in the rock itself. Nowhere else in the world is the rock so exfoliated, so glacier-polished and so devoid of handholds. All of the climbing lines follow vertical crack systems. Every piton crack, every handhold is a vertical one. Special techniques and equipment have evolved through absolute necessity.
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The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
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A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.
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How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?
