Steve Martin Quotes
I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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It was as the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.
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I definitely have a lot of ambition.
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I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.
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There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.
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If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.
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Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.
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However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
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The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.
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I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
