Steve Martin Quotes
I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
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The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.
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L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.
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President Trump turned away from not one but two bipartisan compromises. Each would have averted this shutdown....It is something the majority could have avoided entirely, a concern the president could have obivated, if he were only willing to take yes for an answer.
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Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.
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Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.
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People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.
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I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.
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The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
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I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
