Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

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• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• Im not your biggest girly girl.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Girl
  • Girly
  • Biggest

• For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Small
  • Lose
  • Aim

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Powerful
  • Vote
  • Our

• I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Trying
  • Like
  • Cooking

• You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Best
  • Always

• Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • True
  • Want
  • Lonely

• What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Perfect
  • Like
  • Magical

• When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Boy
  • Own
  • Little

• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Success
  • Eyes

• Duty is not collective; it is personal.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Duty
  • Personal
  • Collective

• Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Deferred

• I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Simple

• I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Drunk

• Virtue is not always amiable.

  

  John Adams

• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Real
  • True
  • Relationship

• And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Words

• I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.

  

  Nick Laird
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Statistics

• I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Dream
  • Photography
  • Luck

• I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Luck
  • Acknowledge
  • Benevolence