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.

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• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Sweet

• 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.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• All the sounds of the earth are like music.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Like

• 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.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Moments
  • Confidence
  • Door

• 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?

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Mean
  • Hair
  • Sick

• This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Cat

• I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Relations
  • Wealthy
  • Recommend

• No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Man
  • Progress
  • Opposite Things

• I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Think
  • Almighty
  • John Lennon

• I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Cold

• One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods.

  

  Stephen Furst
  • Healthy
  • Hungry
  • Foods

• I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

  

  Fawzia Koofi
  • Fighting
  • Daughters
  • Respected

• I really am a very research-oriented writer.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Writer
  • Research

• It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Hungry
  • Billion
  • Obese