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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DR JAMES DOBSON: George, you think you ought to lecture me on what a Christian is all about? You know, I think -I think I'll stand by the things I have said. Patrick Leahy has been in opposition to most of the things that I believe. He is the one that took the reference to God out of the oath.
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Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
