Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind.
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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
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As an actor, I feel there isn't much to explore on TV. So, if I get better work as a host, why wouldn't I do it?
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The only person who can fix education is the student.
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Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.
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The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
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There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
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When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
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I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
