Steve Martin Quotes
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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I'm totally myself.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
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I have to say I really was surprised on my first world tour. It was amazing to see what we've always dreamed of, right before our eyes.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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I'm a total performer.
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If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.
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Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.
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Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
