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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.

Paul Newman

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Paul Newman
Age: 83 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 26
Died: 2008
Died: September 26
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Paul Leonard Newman
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