Steve Martin Quotes
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.
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The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
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Iran humiliated the United States with the capture of our 10 sailors. Horrible pictures & images. We are weak. I will NOT forget!
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In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
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The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.
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If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet.
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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
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They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.
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I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.
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Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.
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Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
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A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.
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When inspiration and emotions are sudden, and you can truly capture something, then, yeah, of course it feels good. But when you’re stunted, and you’re having trouble expressin’ yourself, then obviously it doesn’t. So it’s never constant.
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Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...let it be!.
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I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
