Paul Polman (Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman) Quotes
Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Now what happens? This benefit goes to those mills or export houses in Mumbai. Or in Chennai or in Bangalore.
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My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I'll check it out.
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Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.
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There can be no darkness where I provide the light.
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Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.
