Steve Martin Quotes

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• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Winning
  • Hurt
  • Ability

• Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Writing
  • Person
  • Possible

• With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Book
  • History
  • Present

• My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Football
  • Playing
  • Legacy

• L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Care
  • Company
  • Compete

• I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Famous
  • Fake
  • Now

• It is time we admitted that we are not at war with 'terrorism'. We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • War

• I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Character
  • Action

• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Today
  • Growing
  • Service

• If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Soul

• I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music
  • House

• I'm 69 kilos; I don't have a burden on my back.

  

  Neymar

• The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Patience

• The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • Book
  • Mother

• I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • True
  • Fear
  • Snake

• Bernard Leach knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Dinner

• Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Nature

• I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Tired
  • Punctuation