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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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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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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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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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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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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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
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When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
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Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.
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Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?
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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.
