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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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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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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We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
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I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!
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I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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I think musicians here India get ripped off. Music production houses take good care of artists abroad and though the upfront signing amount is much less than what I get here, the royalty takes care of future returns.
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If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
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I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time.
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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.
