Steve Martin Quotes
I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
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A man must serve his time to every tradeSave censure - critics are ready-made.
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If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.
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I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger - every time I speak on radio or television.
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For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe in it.
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I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.
