Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.
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I'm nice, and I show up on time.
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They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics.
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Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.
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I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance
