Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
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What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.
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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
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Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
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I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.
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Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
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In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
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People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
