Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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Bling is good.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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I love the French horn.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
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Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
