Steve Martin Quotes

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Steve Martin

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• '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.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Youth
  • Very
  • Involved

• 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.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Sometimes
  • Fails
  • Succeeds

• 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.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• 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.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • You
  • End
  • Step

• Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Songs
  • Nothing

• My fans have always loved my metaphors.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Always
  • Fans
  • Loved

• As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Business
  • Man
  • Fool

• 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.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Good
  • Why
  • Air

• Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Aging

• 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.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Age
  • Young
  • Hard

• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• 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?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Alone
  • Magic

• With TV, came the icon, the inclusive image, the inclusive political posture or stance. (p. 191)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Political

• At the end of a long campaign, I believe I know the people of our state as well as anyone. Based on this knowledge of Georgians North and South, Rural and Urban, liberal and conservative, I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Women
  • American
  • Politics

• He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thoughts
  • Importance
  • Writes

• Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Knowledge