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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I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
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I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.
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I want little girls to believe that they can be CEOs.
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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.
