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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I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.
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And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
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Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.
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It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
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Used as "No matter how you struggle and strive, you never get out of this world alive" on the Babyshambles music-video for the single "The Blinding".
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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.
