Steve Martin Quotes

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

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• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
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• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
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• Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.

  

  Barrett Foa
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• I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

  

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• Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

  

  Karen Finerman
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• When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
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• I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
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• Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
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• Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

  

  Louis Nizer
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• We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

  

  Donald Miller
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• "Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
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• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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• Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

  

  George Vancouver
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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
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• I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

  

  Kay Hooper
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• We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.

  

  Jose Ferrer
  • Star
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• The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Novel
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  • Apples