Steve Martin Quotes
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York.
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I'm not here to judge. We don't know what Trump can do.
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I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
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I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
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We've been here since 1983 as a band.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.
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The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
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I like to connect with the other actors in a fantasy situation.
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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
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... you're nuts but you're welcome here.