Steve Martin Quotes
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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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.
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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.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
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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.
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some people run away from things.
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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.
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If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.
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So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
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I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for the money.
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When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.
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I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
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I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.
