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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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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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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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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Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.
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At the end of the day, it's me versus you, and I'm trying to get you out. If I can throw you six curveballs in a row and get you out, I'm going to do it all day.
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I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
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You should not be defined by one bad performance.
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Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.
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My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.
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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
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I love acting, and I really am a group singer, and I'm not really a soloist.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.
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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.
