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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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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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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These universal means of expression were discovered in modern painting by a logical and gradual progress toward ever more abstract form and color. Once the solution was discovered, there followed the exact representation of relations alone, that is to say, of the essential and fundamental element in any plastic emotion of the beautiful.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
