Steve Martin Quotes
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.
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Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.
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I did not forsee a day where the government had to intervene to bail out basically everybody.
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I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.
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It's the bane of existence for anyone in comedy. 'The photograph must be funny!' So the people coordinating the shoot throw rubber chickens at you, 20 at a time. Or put a feathered hat on you. Or give you a clown nose. Of course, all of this makes you depressed, so you wind up looking more like you're promoting A Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
