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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential with others she was realized.
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So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
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I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over.
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When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.
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His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?
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I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.
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