I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
STEVE MARTINAlways do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
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You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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When I die, now don’t think that I’m a nut, don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
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There’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
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How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.
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It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
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Now let’s repeat the non-conformists’ oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
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The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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