Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
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I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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No amount of propaganda can make right something that the world knows is wrong.
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
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I think I've got a funny face.
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I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.
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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
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Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
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I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
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I always thought I was different.
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It's all about balance, and I have so much happiness in my career and am fortunate to travel the world and see so many amazing things - it will also be nice to be anchored to something grounded and in the same place. Raising a family will be a wonderful part of that.
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There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.
