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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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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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 don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
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I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.
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Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.
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I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
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For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun in.
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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.'
