Paul Polman (Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman) Quotes
When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
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When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.
