Steve Martin Quotes
It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
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I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
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为什么外国互联网公司到中国大都失败了？谷歌也不行、雅虎也不行、eBay这些都被中国本土公司给搞死掉了？是不是中国不能做？任何一个失败的人是最容易找藉口的，人类总是为失败找藉口，不为成功找方向。
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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We do not accept or officially recognise Israel. They are occupiers and illegitimate. But our approach is humanitarian. I ask you where is the Soviet Union now - has it been wiped out or not? It vanished without a war. Let the Palestinian people chose. It will happen.
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Ψευδηγορεῖν γὰρ οὐκ ἐπίσταται στόματὸ Δῖον, ἀλλὰ πᾶν ἔπος τελεῖ.
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One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
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I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
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Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.
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Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
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It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
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Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.
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You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.
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At night, I'll do coconut oil or almond oil on my face as a mask to replenish my skin. I've found those are so simple but work better than any other product. Coconut oil is so good, but if you don't want to smell like a cookie, sweet almond oil isn't as pungent.
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Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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Through the years we had a bunch of large range fires that would start in the county. This was about the only one that actually came into town.
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It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.
