Steve Martin Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
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We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
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I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.
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There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.
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I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.
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Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
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As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
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I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
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I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.
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I'd love to wrestle a Bruiser Brody or Andre the Giant from the past.
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I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.
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The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
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When it comes to awards and things like that - I don't know why - I just always sit in amazement and never really expect it.
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
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A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
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I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
