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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.
Steve Harvey
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Steve Harvey
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 17
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The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day. And 15 years later, I did.
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Do what you say you're going to do! People can do nothing but respect that.
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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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I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!
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I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.
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But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.
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You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.
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If you don't have a base - you can't not have a spiritual base and survive. That's probably what has kept me out of the tabloids. Then I go home, I've got a family, and I keep my wife in front of my head.
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You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.
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But remember what drives a man real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken care of, clothed, housed, and reasonably sastisfied, and if they're doing anything less than that, they're not men.
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If a man loves you . . . he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancée, his wife, his baby's mama, something.
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TV is a different animal. I belong on that little screen. The big silver screen, not so much, 'cause I've seen my face up close when it's 25-feet tall. I'm okay as long as you keep me in that little box.
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I talked to Minister [Louis] Farrakhan many times about this subject - there is our reality that we have to deal with on an ongoing basis because we have to exist in order for certain things to get done.
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Sometimes we don't appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!
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Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
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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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You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.
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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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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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You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
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