Steve Martin Quotes

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

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• Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

  

  Dan Colen
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• I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

  

  Flavor Flav
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  • Me
  • Wrong

• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Family
  • Way
  • Existence

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Man
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  • Woman

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
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  • Dead

• Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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  • English
  • Language

• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
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  • Advice
  • Shopping

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
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  • Sound

• Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Fruit

• Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
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• I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

  

  Harold MacMillan
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  • Son
  • Round

• I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Life
  • Work
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• In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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  • Opinion
  • Singing

• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  

  Mark Twain
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  • Optimist

• I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!

  

  James Brown
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  • Karate

• A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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• I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Thinking
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  • Stage

• It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • True
  • Way

• Claire. Wake up.” She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane’s shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was, Oh my God, am I drooling? Her second was that she hadn’t realized she was so close to him, snuggled in. Her third was that although Michael’s part of the couch was empty, Shane hadn’t moved away. And he was watching her with warm, friendly eyes. Oh. Oh, wow, that was nice.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • God
  • She

• They are similar, absolutely. We have leads and we give a lead up. It's been happening like this, the same way.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
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  • Leads

• We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • History
  • Books
  • Teach

• Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Watching

• I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

  

  Steve Martin
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