Steve Martin Quotes
Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
Quotes to Explore
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I never want any problems with anybody in this world.
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Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.
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One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.
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I'm intrigued by what video can do. It can endear you to a song that might pass your ears otherwise. You remember interesting imagery. It can change your perspective.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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My success will be remembered by others. I don't have to constantly remind myself. However, I must always remember my failure, for if I forget them, I am bound to myself.
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
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It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.
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No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.
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Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.
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I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
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Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.
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The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.
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In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
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Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
