Paul Polman (Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman) Quotes
Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.
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My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the court or the balls. But those are excuses. You have to accept when you don't play well and somebody else does.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care … TCB Sock it to me, Sock it to me, Sock it to me.
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Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.
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Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.
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If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.
