Steve Martin Quotes
I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I have a great office.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
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There is one thing that humans strive for with every cell, every gene, every nerve fiber of our beings. ... More than Mallomars, more than hot sex, we want to belong.
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We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?
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Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.
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The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!
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I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
