Steve Martin Quotes

I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

Steve Martin

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• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death
  • Light
  • Dawn

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• Education is neither eastern nor western.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Neither
  • Nor

• Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Want
  • Ever
  • Depend

• It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Done
  • Worry

• My mom always tells me, 'You need to take a week for yourself and just chill,' but I don't, man. If you want to be successful, I don't think you should take a day off.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Mom
  • Chill

• Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

  

  Emily Carr
  • Soul

• If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Habit

• I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • World
  • Children
  • Friends

• We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Rock

• Sometimes the opponents deserve a red card, but instead, they carry on playing with 11 men. So you also have to be more lucky in the future.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Men
  • Future
  • Red

• Some people run away from things.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • People

• The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.

  

  Aleqa Hammond
  • High
  • Free
  • Risk

• If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale

• 'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Stop

• I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Beauty

• I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Art
  • Humans
  • Entertainment