Steve Martin Quotes
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
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I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.
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We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
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I want to be the most exciting fighter out there.
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I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
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Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.
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There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
