Steve Martin Quotes

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

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• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• I was raised doing martial arts.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Doing
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Light
  • Nobody
  • Italy

• Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Job

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Look
  • Relationships
  • Seeing

• I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Learn

• Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • History
  • Hurt
  • Patriotism

• There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Women
  • Money
  • She

• I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Going
  • Shaking
  • Booty

• Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Bad
  • Free
  • Best

• Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

  

  Ferdinand Foch

• It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Justice
  • Charity

• I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Heart

• I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Thinking
  • Patriotic
  • Tough Questions

• We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Mind
  • Earth

• I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Habit
  • Jobs
  • Tasks

• I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Ego
  • Views
  • Dialogue

• Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world out there.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • World
  • Thinking

• To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Stuck