Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
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I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
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The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
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There's an assumption that executives are there to do the right thing.
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When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
