Steve Martin Quotes
Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.
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I've never taken myself too seriously.
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When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
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I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.
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I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.
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Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.
