Steve Martin Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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Terrorism is not new to black people.
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In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
