Neelie Kroes Quotes
The payment cards industry in Europe remains national and some local players are preventing competition from developing.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.
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No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
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Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable–this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience's opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.
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Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.
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Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
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'Idol' was more of a competition, and that was more of a platform that I wanted to get a hold of and get on top of. And I finally got that opportunity, and now it's more like, I just gotta show and prove myself to everybody that I'm not just the 'balladeer.'
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I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.
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The payment cards industry in Europe remains national and some local players are preventing competition from developing.
