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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
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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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Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.
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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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Several nutrition companies have approached me over the years to endorse a number of different products. Some worked; some didn't - so I decided to create my own brand.
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I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
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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.
