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.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
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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.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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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.'
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
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No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
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I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.
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If your taste goes wrong or you listen to other people's tastes too much, even though they could make a fantastic movie out of it with their own tastes, if they blend their tastes with mine, it's probably going to be a mess.
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There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.
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Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.
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What’s the point of saving time if we don’t use it to savor what makes life worth living?
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We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.
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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.
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...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.
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What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.
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It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.
