Steve Martin Quotes
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.
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If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.
