Steve Martin Quotes
I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.
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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.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.
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I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
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Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
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Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
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I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'
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I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.
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Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
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My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
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Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
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Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
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We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.
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Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.
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I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.
