Steve Martin Quotes
I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations that we report from and we report to, bridge of dialogue. This is what Al Jazeera is all about. Al Jazeera is a mission.
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People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!
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Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
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I've come to the realization that you can entertain people both through making them laugh and making them feel. You can be quiet, and they can feel, and you will have scored as well.
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One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
