Steve Martin Quotes

Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

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• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Child

• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Been
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• Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Ashamed
  • Lady
  • Argue

• I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Money
  • Me
  • Control

• My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Tree

• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
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  • Why

• I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
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• 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• Under the Affordable Care Act everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz

• God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Time
  • God
  • Running

• In England, and in all Roman Catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Reality
  • Church
  • Catholic

• When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

  

  Didi Conn

• We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

  

  Evangelos Venizelos
  • Acceptance
  • Solution
  • Greece

• I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Girl

• It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
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  • Moon

• Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

  

  Steve Martin
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