Steve Martin Quotes
I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.
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If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!
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We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.
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Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it.
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I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.
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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Language can do what it can’t say.
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I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
