Steve Martin Quotes

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Education
  • Form
  • Rewards

• I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Doing
  • Looking
  • Roots

• Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Reality
  • Running

• I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Greed
  • Idiot
  • Newspaper

• When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Old
  • Him
  • Bond

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Years
  • Rain
  • Plants

• Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Me
  • Now
  • Fierce

• Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Daily

• A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Always
  • Person
  • Someone

• People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Nasty
  • Continue

• We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Up

• ...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Age
  • Poetry

• The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Book
  • Today

• I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Good

• Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • God
  • Trying

• My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Mom

• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Revenge
  • Centuries
  • My Side

• Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

  

  Steve Martin