Paul Polman (Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman) Quotes
It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
-
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
-
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
-
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
-
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
-
I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?
-
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
-
I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
-
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
-
I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.
-
My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
-
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
-
...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.
-
Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.
-
It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.
