Steve Martin Quotes
I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
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Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
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I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.
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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
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The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.
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The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
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I'm very lucky because people send me a lot of stuff and post cool articles and pictures on my wall, which does make life a lot easier for me. When we were at 60,000 or 100,000 'likes,' I was still having to source the content myself, and I was constantly trolling the Internet, whereas now things are sent to me, which does make it a lot easier.
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I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!
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I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.
