Steve Martin Quotes
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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I play well with everybody.
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
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You ever look for the remote control, but you can't find it, so you just decide, "Ah, guess I'm not watching TV. I'm not gonna take two steps and turn it on myself. I'll go to the gym if I'm going to work out."
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I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
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They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.
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I promise that if Mariah comes I won't stare at her tits.
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Love is a promise delivered already broken.
