Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
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You don't realise it, but we're in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They're way ahead.
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I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.
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It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'
