Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.
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I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'
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Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.
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I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.
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Was it a vision, or a waking dream?Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?
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Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
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A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.
