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.
Foster Friess
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa
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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.
Kara Walker
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
K. D. Lang
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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!'
Langston Hughes
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You're always going to have terrorism.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
Barbara Corcoran
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
Paloma Elsesser
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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.
Lamont Dozier
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I'm totally myself.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Isaac Hayes
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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.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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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.
Tamara Ecclestone
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
Pat Robertson
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I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.
Dawn French
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Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
Jack Nicklaus
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Σεμνόστομός γε καὶ φρονήματος πλέωςὁ μῦθός ἐστιν, ὡς θεῶν ὑπηρέτου.
Aeschylus
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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz
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Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
Steve Martin