Steve Martin Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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Television is such an evolving medium.
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I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.
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I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama.
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Knowledge is encoded in models. Models are synthetic sets of rules, and pictures, and algorithms providing us with useful representations of the world of our perceptions and of their patterns.
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A person whose conduct consists of not hurting anyone is not good; such a person is merely not bad. To be a good person involves the active pursuit of good. It is not enough merely to refrain from hurting other human beings; one must intercede on their behalf.
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
