Steve Martin Quotes

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

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• People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Power
  • Exercise

• I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Exercise
  • Healthy
  • Physically

• Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Star

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Exercise

• Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Health
  • Exercise

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Exercise
  • Empathy
  • Advocacy

• Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Energy
  • Amazing
  • Exercise

• Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Exercise
  • Leader
  • Athlete

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Reading
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Perfect

• The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • Car
  • Exercise

• It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Exercise

• The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Exercise

• Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I'm in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we're all going to be in for a long boring evening.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Great
  • Long
  • Emotional

• Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Opinion

• I don't love exercise. Some of it is more fun than others, so what I do is, if I'm on the treadmill and I don't want to finish, I look at it and say, "Okay, this is 20 minutes, versus the rest of my life. I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing so many other things, so I can do this for 20 minutes."

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Exercise
  • My Life
  • Don't Love

• No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Eye

• We built 'Jade Empire,' then we built 'Mass Effect,' then we built 'Dragon Age.' With those last two, when you're dealing with two big ideas that are on their third iterations, you develop some strategies for managing your lore, or you drown!

  

  Marc Laidlaw
  • Age

• Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Good
  • Experience

• I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

  

  Steve Martin
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