Steve Martin Quotes

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

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• Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Loyalty

• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Consider

• 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.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Today
  • Legal

• 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.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Myself
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • School
  • Power
  • Brain

• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Road
  • Perception

• Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• 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.

  

  Lana Wood
  • People
  • Life
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • History

• I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

  

  Coco Lee
  • Girl
  • Silly

• Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Different

• 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.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Up

• I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

  

  Alix Smith
  • People
  • Power
  • Perception

• I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.

  

  Neil Sedaka

• Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

  

  Martin Zweig
  • Success

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

  

  Steve Martin
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