Steve Martin Quotes
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
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My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups.
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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.
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These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.
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I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.
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There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.
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Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
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Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.
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The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
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It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless.
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I have to tell you I am losing a little patience with what appears to me to be an almost pathological obsession with calling into question the actions of men and women who are on the front lines of the war on terror.
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I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.
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Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.
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Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
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Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.
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There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
