Steve Martin Quotes
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'
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This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing audience laughter and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.
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Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.
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I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'
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'To be perfectly honest with you, ABC picks you to do this and then the machine goes into action and you shoot promos. But I'm still sitting in my bedroom at home going, 'Jeez, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it.' And it's a weird situation to be in. And I guess we'll all find out.
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human or animal mind.
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
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That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
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'I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don’t know about.'
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It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
