Steve Martin Quotes
Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I'm very passionate.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.
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I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.
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Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.
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The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.
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Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
