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.

Paul Newman

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• Rebel
• Conformist
• Nonconformist

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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.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Country
  • War
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Together
  • Parents

• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Well
  • Ease
  • Rapping

• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Time
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Hurt

• 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.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Women
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I love Al Pacino.

  

  Rain
  • Love
  • I Love
  • al

• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Honest
  • Politician

• 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.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Money

• I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Lives
  • Knew

• Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

  

  Louis Aragon
  • People
  • Different
  • Solitude

• 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.

  

  Marian Seldes

• I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

  

  Alison Tyler
  • Time
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Dance

• Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

  

  Martin Parr
  • People
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • Done

• Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Believe
  • Picture
  • Model

• We believe most investors are more focused on Monday's analyst meeting in (New York) rather than near-term earnings.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Believe
  • Monday
  • Investors

• First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.

  

  Wayne LaPierre
  • Believe
  • Tolerance
  • Exception

• 'I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,' I said. 'I want to be myself.''Don’t be a child.'I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. 'What?''You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I’m tired of your whining.'

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Up
  • Done
  • Universe

• I believe in an America where the free enterprise system flourishes for all other systems to see and admire - where no businessman lacks either competition or credit - and where no monopoly, no racketeer, no government bureaucracy can put him out of business that he built up with his own initiative.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Believe
  • Progress
  • Rebel