Paul Polman (Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman) Quotes
My biggest fear is that we Unilever company at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest workers. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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I adore 'The Chipmunks.'
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I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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In the green water, clear and warm, Susanna lay. She searched The touch of springs, And found Concealed imaginings. She sighed, For so much melody.
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I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.
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I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, 'Strike, if you will; but hear'.
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Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.
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People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
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My biggest fear is that we Unilever company at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest workers. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.
