Steve Martin Quotes

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Present
  • Beginning

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

  

  Kaki King
  • Great
  • Past
  • Pain

• I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Working

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• We never thought we'd get this far, but we're here.

  

  Selena
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Here

• It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • People
  • Weird

• I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Mysterious

• Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Rebel

• I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'

  

  Brian Posehn

• Ultimately, as a director, you try and tell people where to look, but unlike film or television, where you force them to look at something, you can't control it completely.

  

  Jason Moore
  • People
  • Control

• One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

  

  Ally Condie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Poetry

• I journal a lot for nobody but myself. Just to get my thoughts out and to clear my mind. That's very therapeutic to me.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Career

• While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink us deeply into debt.

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Divorce

• I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • School
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search-for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Identity

• Honestly, I couldn’t remember the last time I asked God to fill me with joy. Or to create a joyful spirit in my children. Goodness knows I’ve asked for peace and sanity and obedience. I’ve prayed for healing and wisdom. I’ve worshiped the Lord and studied His Word. But joy? How in the world did I forget about the beautiful, good, and pleasing gift of joy?

  

  Angela Thomas
  • Joy
  • Wisdom
  • Healing

• The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Society
  • Free
  • Purpose

• I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Dance
  • inspirational
  • Made