Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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I love acting.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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Paintin they own pictures then they crop me in But I will remain where the top begins
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People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.
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Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.
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A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.
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That's the easiest 69 I ever made.
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I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have; 18 million people now have healthcare; preexisting conditions are no longer a bar.
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I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.
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You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
