Paul Newman Quotes
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A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.
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Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.
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A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
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The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.
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Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
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From salad dressings all blessings flow.
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I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile in "Cars". That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?
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Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.
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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.
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You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
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I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.
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I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.
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I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.
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I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.
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Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
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There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.
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I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.
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The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.
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Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
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I can eat fifty eggs.
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A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.
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I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.
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The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.
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What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?