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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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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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.
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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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The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
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If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure.
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Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
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I'd given up my idea of being a fine artist, ... The Internet, eBay, made this possible.
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Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
