Steve Martin Quotes
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
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Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.
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I can be bought, but not bored.
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The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
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I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.
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A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.
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I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.
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People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
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The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
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I give myself strength by staying away from any music.
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This joyfulness that I felt when I sang, and this need to communicate with people, these are my two strongest points. I've always been a people person. I love people; I like to be with people, and when I got on stage, I was home free.
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There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.
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I don't care who's in front of me; nobody is going to stop me from winning the world title.
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I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.
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I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.
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Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
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I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?
