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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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 Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.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 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 have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.
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I am a believer in the rights of the unborn and the goodness of every life, and I have promised that, as governor, I will champion those values.
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People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
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I'd love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times.
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When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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Current and former Assistant Attorneys General have a duty to follow all rules related to the practice of law in the state of Texas.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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I don't know why everyone was stressin' because we weren't losing those games
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I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
