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I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.


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PAUL MANAFORT If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I&...
PAUL RYAN The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. Pe...
PAUL RYAN If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew...
PAUL FARMER These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in tea...
PAUL CELLUCCI As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But w...
PAUL TONKO Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute supp...
PAUL TONKO The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
GABE PAUL Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only...
PAUL O'NEILL Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks ag...
PAUL BEGALA I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could...
PAUL WALKER By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou...
SEAN PAUL The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it...
PAUL WELLER It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an...
PAUL HAWKEN