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The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

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Steve Harvey
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 17
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I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.
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If you'd asked me then if I saw how big The Steve Harvey Morning Show was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.
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I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of New York Times best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
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Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.
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Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.
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You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.
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Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort.~Steve Harvey
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I don't see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They're heading up households they're single parents they're breadwinners they're the 'mamas,' they're the 'daddies,' they're the 'uncles.' They take the kids to school they take them to doctors, you know? They take them to games. I see it all the time.
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My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.
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a real man is happy and eager to live by your rules, as long as he knows what the rules are and he's sure that abiding by those rules will help keep the woman he loves happy
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I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.
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When I first got money, I went through it like everybody else, because I didn't know. But, right now, I've educated myself and placed smart people around me. I surrounded myself with people who not only are intelligent and effective about finances, taxes, and money management, but they (also) love me.
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To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.
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I'm still very much a Christian and have a great relationship with God. I love Him, but one of my flaws is that I cuss.
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I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.
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Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.
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But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.
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Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.
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Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.
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Anyone can sleep with a guy in 24-48 hours, but you're sending the wrong signal to the guy if you do that.
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