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Frans van Houten Quotes

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

Frans van Houten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: dutch
Birth: April 26, 1960

Topics

Forward Enough You Fast Sometimes

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'

Women Men Me Think Advice Learn

I wouldn't call myself a brawler.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

Me Famous Enough Goal Awesome Just

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Heart Self Self-Love Affection Sense

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Jonathan Shapiro

Laugh Someone Out Social Get Rather

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

Home Struggle Beginning Know Strike

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

Reality American Hands Trying Writer

Drag is about whatever persona you put on to do a particular task. I could pick up trash in the morning and throw on my navy blue jumpsuit, and that would be that gig!

Morning Blue You Trash Navy Task

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

Yourself You Gym Acting Shape Going

I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator - that wasn't for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.

Financial Long Furniture Interior

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Teacher Driving Mentor Claim Forces

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

Mistake Immortality Individual West

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