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 used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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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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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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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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What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.
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I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.
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Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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There are few takers for the quiet heart.