Steve Martin Quotes
I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.
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Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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No, but you can see it from here.
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A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely
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My Pleasure is my business
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.
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Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
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Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
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I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."
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I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.
