Steve Martin Quotes
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.
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A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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If you really want to change someone's life today, don't just pray for them... pray with them.
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Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
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I was originally set to star in 'The Bourne Identity,' but I found it too difficult to even pretend to forget who I was.
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Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
