Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

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• All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Fighters
  • Promoters

• Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Fun
  • Girls
  • Wot

• There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Door

• Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Great
  • War
  • Political

• Arms wrapped around his neck, she kissed his temple. "I'm sorry I scared you." It wasn't the done thing for an archangel to admit fear, but he was hers, and she'd hurt him without meaning to; it was up to her to fix her mistake. His wings shifted, but he didn't extricate their bodies. "I didn't know fear until you, Elena. Use the power wisely.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • Done
  • She

• That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Long
  • Earth

• You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Work
  • Want

• Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Attitude
  • Compassion
  • Faces

• Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Born
  • Love Is

• The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Winning

• Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.

  

  E. Cheraskin
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Health

• It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

  

  Max Lerner
  • War
  • Giving
  • Democracy

• Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Regret
  • Consciousness

• We tend to be desensitized by the non-stop media coverage of the relief effort, thinking there's nothing more we can do. We're just happy to have a song and a video that keeps the awareness of how monumental this task is and that we have to keep trying to do everything we can to help.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Help
  • Task
  • Relief

• I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • King

• We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here Rome with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Important
  • America
  • Film

• A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Dollars