Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.Paul Newman
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
Karin Fossum -
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
Nathan Myhrvold -
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
Malcolm X -
Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.
Dan Quinn -
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush -
I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
S. Truett Cathy
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I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
Walter Mosley -
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Carl Sandburg -
And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
Barney Frank -
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford -
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
Sam Mendes -
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
Tad Williams
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
Odette Annable -
Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
Zac Efron -
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides -
I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.
Karan Mahajan -
You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
Carl Lewis
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It's a unique, romantic sound, and people love to hear it. It takes people back to an older America and a simpler, more elegant time. It's a sound I really love, and I find that once people get a chance to hear it live, in all its glory, that they love it, too.
Johnny Crawford -
Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Stop it, and give yourself a chance.
Aaron T. Beck -
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
Niger Innis -
I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
Paul Newman