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.'
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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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.
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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.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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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.
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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.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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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.
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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.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
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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?
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I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
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The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
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Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.
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I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.
