Steve Martin Quotes
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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The fans reaction to the record Red is incredible. Taylor has been reading many tweets lately and wanted to thank her fans with what they ask for the most. We're planning to record the 10 Minute Version of All Too Well and a music video. She's busy with touring right now but we will find some time.
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We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.
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If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.
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Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.
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The problem was that public had no way to know that this “evidence” was part of an industry campaign designed to confuse. It was, in fact, part of a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.
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Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
