Paul Polman (Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman) Quotes
Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again — but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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I don't like to look sloppy. I'm a girly-girl.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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A man without money is a bow without an arrow.
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But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
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The constant pressure to be the perfect, ideal female - there's no such thing.
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I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
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I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.
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What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.
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My law clerks come from diverse backgrounds and points of view.
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I feel triumphant when our moms can use Airbnb without their technically inclined kids.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
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Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.
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Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again — but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.
