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It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.


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PAUL REVERE Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
PAUL RODRIGUEZ A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
PAUL VALERY As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence...
PAUL ROBESON The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...
RON PAUL Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...
RON PAUL Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fiel...
PAUL DAVIES The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
RAND PAUL Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tr...
PAUL FEIG I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.
PAUL DANO Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. wi...
RAND PAUL A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared...
PAUL JOHNSON Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in sm...
PAUL HAWKEN I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American...
RAND PAUL I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel ...
PAUL ENGLE Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx...
PAUL FARMER The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife,...
PAUL GASCOIGNE The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades,...
PAUL FARMER Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...
PAUL RICœUR Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, ab...
PAUL GREENGRASS Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from ...
PAUL RUDNICK I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little mo...
PAUL THEROUX Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't ...
PAUL MCGANN I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a ...
PAUL NURSE I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ...
PAUL WALKER I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk...
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