Steve Martin Quotes
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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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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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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I think that's important - that transgender individuals are just like everyone else. We have our interests, our hobbies, our things we like to do. And people have to understand that.
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If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
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I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
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2) Never fire a laser at a mirror.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
