Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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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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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.
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In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.
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I love Al Pacino.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
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Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
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I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
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I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.
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Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
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Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
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People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
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I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
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A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.
