Steve Martin Quotes

I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.

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• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Great
  • Movies
  • Guilty

• I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Small
  • Never

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Time
  • Government
  • Three

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Hope
  • Will
  • Go

• Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Find
  • Where

• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Country
  • Anybody

• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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  • Musicians

• We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
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  • First
  • Will

• When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Giving
  • Sword

• The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

  

  Douglas Feith
  • People

• We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • People
  • America

• The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

  

  Len Deighton
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell inadvertently spread his fame throughout the Arab world.

  

  Joby Warrick
  • World

• See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.

  

  Steve Martin
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