Steve Martin Quotes
As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski -
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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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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Lower taxes will stimulate your own personal economy by leaving more money in your pocket to do what you want - invest, save, spend, buy a bigger house, a nicer car, and give to charity. And lower taxes also lead to more money for the government to use on those things they've promised you. It's a win-win for everyone.
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
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That was a documentary!
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Believing in the one thing That has gotten us this far - That's what love is for To help us through it That's what love is for Nothing else can do it Melt our defenses Bring us back to our senses Give us strength to try once more Baby, that's what love is for.
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
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In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.
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I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.
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As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
