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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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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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 have a lot of respect for the careers of the players. They are with us, they are with me, and I treat them like professionals.
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I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?
