Steve Martin Quotes

Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

Steve Martin

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• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Media

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Air
  • Story
  • Tell

• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Important
  • More
  • Muscles

• Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Believe
  • You
  • Find

• I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Nice
  • Smart
  • Same

• I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Time
  • Death

• It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Respect
  • Reading
  • Fashion

• I feel like people believe I'm thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

  

  Leopoldo Lopez

• I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Good

• There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Value

• I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

  

  Delroy Lindo
  • Life
  • Help
  • Wish

• I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.'

  

  David Brock

• A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Different
  • Society
  • Culture

• Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Death
  • Marriage
  • Human Beings

• Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Comedy
  • Magic
  • Jokes