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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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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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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I play well with everybody.
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I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Ivy is of longevity.
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You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
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I should be the Hunger Strikee.
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The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
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Love is a promise delivered already broken.
