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.

Steve Martin

• Comedy
• Magic
• Banjos
• Juggling

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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.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• I love cats. I've had cats as pets.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • I Love
  • Cats
  • Pets

• 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.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Long
  • Money
  • Short

• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Things
  • Name
  • Straight

• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Feel

• Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Try
  • Just
  • Fake

• A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Italian

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Danger

• The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Period

• 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.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Business
  • Hand
  • Understanding

• 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.

  

  Bruce Kent
  • Power
  • Present
  • Organization

• I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Women

• We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • God
  • Friends

• 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.'

  

  Kevin Young
  • Good
  • Music

• I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.

  

  Allu Arjun

• Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

  

  Kim Jong Il
  • Unity

• My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • Life

• I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Girl
  • Band

• 'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.

  

  James Gray
  • Magic
  • Profound

• I would love to do more family comedy.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Family
  • Comedy

• When everyone turned away, the only person I could turn to was God within myself, and that is what I continue to rely on.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • God

• I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mother

• I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Comedy
  • Magic
  • Banjos