Steve Martin Quotes
Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
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Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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'I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.''In my experience,' Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, 'excitement is always better when it happens to other people.'
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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I'm a normal guy. I'm not a chef.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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I get cheered more and more for one simple reason: When I step in the ring, I steal the show! I will not accept anything less from myself.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'
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Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.
