Steve Martin Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.
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Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.
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I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
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Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.
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Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
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After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
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It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
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There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.
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There are few takers for the quiet heart.
