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 remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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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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I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
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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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What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.
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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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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
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For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.
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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.
