Steve Martin Quotes

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

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• My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

  

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
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• Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
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• I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

  

  Barry Sheene
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• I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
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• It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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• We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
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• I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

  

  Ricky Martin
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• We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• Cancer does not discriminate.

  

  Kellie Pickler
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• I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
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• As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
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• I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

  

  Steve Martin
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