Steve Martin Quotes
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
Nate Powell -
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
Zhu Rongji -
If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.
Ted Cruz -
My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
J. B. Pritzker -
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
Naveen Andrews -
I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
Taron Egerton
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski -
I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
Hal Ashby -
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
Ha-Joon Chang -
My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
Manika -
People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
Mara Wilson -
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
Warren Farrell -
Ἔστι· θεοῦ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἰσχὺς καθυπερτέρα·πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐν κακοῖσι τὸν ἀμάχανονκἀκ χαλεπᾶς δύας ὕπερθ᾽ ὀμμάτωνκρημναμενᾶν νεφελᾶν ὀρθοῖ.
Aeschylus -
When I joined Lille, they had a new stadium at Marseille. It was the same, so I know how important it is to clubs when they move home.
Dimitri Payet -
I'm very outgoing and social.
Emma Roberts -
I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.
Amanda Burton -
What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I wasn't born that way - I developed it, I worked at it. And also that the grassroots can organize and take on all the powers that be and defeat them. That is the lesson.
Phyllis Schlafly
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I tell you to keep going, not because it's easy. Not because it doesn't hurt. I tell you to keep going because there's no other way. To stop is to die. Life is in motion. In growth. In change. Life is in seeking and in finding. Life is in redemption. Each moment is a new birth. A new chance to come back, to get it right.
Yasmin Mogahed -
'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
Sam Heughan -
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.
Ethel Watts Mumford -
You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
Steve Martin