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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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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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.
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What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
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Life should be great rather than long.
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Under the warm breath of religious faith all social institutions become plastic.
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The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.
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We never thought we'd get this far, but we're here.
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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.
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I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.
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The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.
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Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.
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I think what Ripple is doing is not just, 'Hey, how do we enable banks' - it's a broader effort in how can you enable an Internet of Things and connected devices that are economic actors to pass a couple pennies.
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In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.
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If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
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The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.
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I have nothing negative to say about Congressman Lamborn.
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I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
