Steve Martin Quotes
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.
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凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。
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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
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The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.
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Friends,
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I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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I started doing sports when I was 13 and competitively doing sports - where I was actually training - when I was 17.
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This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
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Investment banks are increasingly using their own balance sheets to extend credit to clients, to assume market risk on their behalf and sometimes to co-invest alongside them. Investment banking serves as the main initial point of contact with all of Goldman Sachs for our clients.
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Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
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It's pain that changes our lives.
