Steve Martin Quotes

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

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• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Start
  • Finish

• Not from without us, only from within, Comes or can ever come upon us light Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight. No truth, no strength, no comfort man may win, No grace for guidance, no release from sin, Save of his own soul's giving.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • May
  • Truth
  • Soul

• The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Great
  • Country
  • Money

• When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Freedom
  • Financial

• I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life

• In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • Music

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Up

• Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

  

  Charles Osgood
  • People
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of 'Pinocchio' theater thing. The way that it's described in the play is this disfigurement.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • Work
  • Different
  • Movie

• I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Important

• I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.

  

  John Podesta
  • People
  • Faith
  • Judge

• There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.

  

  David Sze
  • Great
  • Discipline
  • Scary

• The growth that we are targeting for our bank is in line with the banking industry.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Growth

• Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

  

  Charles W. Pickering
  • Family
  • Hope

• 'I’ll drive. You navigate.' He grinned. 'I judge people by how well they read maps.'

  

  Jane Yolen
  • People
  • Judge

• Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Power
  • Soul

• With Jay-Z, it's hard not to be amazing.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Amazing

• My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I'm a fan of simple and natural products.

  

  Hailey Rhode Baldwin
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Mom

• Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Good
  • Live
  • Dad

• If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

  

  Epictetus
  • Answer
  • Faults
  • Speaks

• Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

  

  Steve Martin