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STEVE MARTIN People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's cra...
JOSHUA SASSE The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or suc...
BILLY ECKSTINE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever...
DAN PEARCE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Either enjoy whatever you do or try atleast once whatever you want.
SUPERNA BATHEJA If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in a...
ALICIA MACHADO Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and giv...
ALIA BHATT Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you trea...
KRIS CARR You just do what you can to be noticed, whether it's throwing a big hit or whatever. You want to be ...
BRENDAN BELL To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but...
CAM NEWTON When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see...
JIM MCKAY If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whate...
SNOOP DOGG whatever you do
be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or ...
SANOBER KHAN Your soulmate can be anything. It could be the person you marry, or it could just be literally your ...
WILLIAM JACKSON HARPER You can eat whatever you want in moderation, and that's what everyone has gotten away from. Do you w...
LORA CUNNINGHAM When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whate...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you wa...
LISA MANGUM You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is ...
ANN MARIE FROHOFF I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitte...
BILLY MAGNUSSEN Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin...
ANNETTE BENING You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or...
GARY VAYNERCHUK Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.
JERRY LEWIS Whether in business or in life, you can be civil and get ahead. Whatever your age or circumst...
CHRISTINE PORATH He went into hiding, which is a good thing. You don't want to confront somebody (who could) possibly...
TED WHITE Whatever story you create in your life, you deserve your own Karma be it good or bad...
COCOY MCCOY You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are ...
STEVE MARTIN Even as a child Gates had an obsessive personality and a compulsive need to be the best. "Any school...
JAMES WALLACE Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the e...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. ...
MICHAEL HORSE If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you w...
ADAM SCHLESINGER Whatever you had to do to survive, whatever you did from spite or rage or selfishness … I don’t ...
SARAH J. MAAS Whatever you had to do to survive, whatever you did from spite or rage or selfishness... I don't giv...
SARAH J. MAAS if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can ...
NATE ROBINSON It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what y...
STEPHEN CURRY Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
JIMMY JOHNSON Tag is my outlet. In everyday life you usually don't have a chance to say what's on your mind, or yo...
JAMES SCHOLFIELD I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't ju...
NEIL PEART Whatever good or bad you do, you do it to yourself.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll d...
AARON ECKHART Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU The art of writing is what you get to do once to do become familiar with the craft.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude i...
BETHANY HAMILTON Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz,...
AMY RAY REMEMBER
Do you live your life according to how you want to remember it or how you will be reme...
KITTY DOWNER There's a balance: You want to love them and do what you can, but you don't want to lose your job or...
VIRGINIA MORRIS It's really a place for anybody whether you're in the community and you want an update on the projec...
GREG WEAVER There tends to be a bit of a macho attitude in the athletic community that you don't want to focus t...
HEATHER HILL I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a w...
IKE BARINHOLTZ Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call i...
JIM ELLIOT Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.
BILL SANDS Think twice or more before you start doing something for someone, it may be a good thing what you wa...
NISHI DE SILVA Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own exp...
FUTURE Whatever you focus on overwhelms you. Whether that be past or present, friend or foe, love or hate, ...
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he s...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor...
TYLER PERRY Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change t...
STEVE JOBS If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is ...
GOLSHIFTEH FARAHANI You can choose to fight your journey every step of the way or you can embrace it, recognizing each s...
KIERRA C.T. BANKS I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that&...
T. C. BOYLE Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, ...
JOEL MADDEN All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether...
JANE ALEXANDER I got in this business because of Steve Martin playing a banjo with an arrow through his head. You h...
DAN WHITNEY I want to make you smile. For real. Always. We're going to go for dinners, and see movies, and walk ...
K.A. TUCKER If you do, you can be whatever you want.
BEN TOLOSA I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of...
KEVIN CHAMBERLIN If you want to be somebody be yourself. If you want to be happy be. If you want to go somewhere or d...
BRANDON HOFER I think 'Lexus lanes,' or whatever you want to call [HOT lanes] is going to be a wedge issue.
PHIL ESPOSITO We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, ...
BERNHARD LANGER You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other cir...
JACK YOUNGBLOOD Whatever you do, do not be lulled by routine or the grind of life into complacency, thereby loosing ...
DIETMAR PAHL Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it o...
SEAMUS HEANEY Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your ...
DASCHA POLANCO Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there ...
ALAN SHEPARD A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I s...
MAUREEN JOHNSON We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit diffe...
EVA GREEN Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, ...
ROBERT GREENE To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be th...
ALAN SHEPARD You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other...
JACK YOUNGBLOOD People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll ju...
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STEVE MARTIN I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
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STEVE MARTIN I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
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STEVE MARTIN Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them o...
STEVE MARTIN I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th...
STEVE MARTIN Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.
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STEVE MARTIN A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working ...
STEVE MARTIN Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be...
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STEVE MARTIN Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
STEVE MARTIN Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
STEVE MARTIN Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you...
STEVE MARTIN Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!
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STEVE MARTIN Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
STEVE MARTIN First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
STEVE MARTIN A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
STEVE MARTIN I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of peo...
STEVE MARTIN Be so good they can't ignore you.
STEVE MARTIN The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
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STEVE MARTIN I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness...
STEVE MARTIN I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, th...
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STEVE MARTIN An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might ...
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STEVE MARTIN Love is a promise delivered already broken.
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STEVE MARTIN There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won'...
STEVE MARTIN I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just l...
STEVE MARTIN I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is...
STEVE MARTIN When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I j...
STEVE MARTIN Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.
STEVE MARTIN I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
STEVE MARTIN There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't s...
STEVE MARTIN Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
STEVE MARTIN I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians....
STEVE MARTIN I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act o...
STEVE MARTIN Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows ar...
STEVE MARTIN 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a rea...
STEVE MARTIN I just brush it off and try to make a joke about it. Over the years it's been interesting.
STEVE MARTIN I'm enamored with the art world.
STEVE MARTIN I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor deta...
STEVE MARTIN There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of...
STEVE MARTIN When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally ev...
STEVE MARTIN Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes...
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STEVE MARTIN We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the ent...
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STEVE MARTIN I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'...
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STEVE MARTIN It doesn't behoove us not to ask these questions. It makes us look like fools.
STEVE MARTIN When we started building out here, we knew this was where we were headed. After we built our first o...
STEVE MARTIN It's hard to find the right expression for this, but her beauty that she keeps within, you know? The...
STEVE MARTIN I'm happy with how the day has gone and we've made positive steps forward each time I've gone out. M...
STEVE MARTIN By expressing his heart, anger and joy, Richard Pryor took comedy to its highest form.
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STEVE MARTIN Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.
STEVE MARTIN [On his breakthrough 1977 album] Let's Get Small, ... There's a million people onstage and everythin...
STEVE MARTIN a pile of near-misses.
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STEVE MARTIN We're absolutely thrilled to be named as one of the Best Companies to Work for in Texas. It's an hon...
STEVE MARTIN It's kind of a dream come true, because we've always loved these films. We've loved this character, ...
STEVE MARTIN As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it ...
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STEVE MARTIN First, my doctor told me the good news. He said I was going to have a disease named after me.
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STEVE MARTIN I gave my cat a bath the other day. . .they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, if was fun for me....
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STEVE MARTIN It's almost as if someone took a saltine cracker, crumbled it and threw it in the air. These casinos...
STEVE MARTIN When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of t...
STEVE MARTIN We are comfortable, collectively, that those 12 [shootings] are related.
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STEVE MARTIN In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd ...
STEVE MARTIN She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.
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STEVE MARTIN I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as mu...
STEVE MARTIN I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and bei...
STEVE MARTIN I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said...
STEVE MARTIN So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
STEVE MARTIN ...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled ...
STEVE MARTIN I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you...
STEVE MARTIN . . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.
STEVE MARTIN I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of soc...
STEVE MARTIN Just to be on the front row here is a bit of a prize in itself.
STEVE MARTIN You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosey, fucking, cheeks! Then you can gi...
STEVE MARTIN There was a time in my life when I was very interested in relationship psychology. Relationships end...
STEVE MARTIN I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are ...
STEVE MARTIN They're going to ask those questions.
STEVE MARTIN It takes time though for owners and trainers to invest that additional purse money to start cultivat...
STEVE MARTIN If she doesn't get an Academy Award nomination, I will kill myself.
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STEVE MARTIN That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it...
STEVE MARTIN I just think they should get a fair shake. They didn't. They didn't have the rights regular criminal...
STEVE MARTIN I am really happy to stay with FPR for next year, especially after the amount of progress that we ha...
STEVE MARTIN There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and tal...
STEVE MARTIN I'm surprised even now that I was aware of things like that at that age. I don't know why. But I dec...
STEVE MARTIN We are just happy that we are here in Brazil and that this was a good ending.
STEVE MARTIN The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron,
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STEVE MARTIN Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy C...
STEVE MARTIN A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
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STEVE MARTIN I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was. . . a large Arctic region covered wi...
STEVE MARTIN Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy.
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STEVE MARTIN It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it s...
STEVE MARTIN I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing ...
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STEVE MARTIN Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work ...
STEVE MARTIN L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I t...
STEVE MARTIN You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on i...
STEVE MARTIN You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
STEVE MARTIN Had his room been facing west he would have noted the sparkling twenty-five-mile vista to the sea wh...
STEVE MARTIN Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever h...
STEVE MARTIN Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live ch...
STEVE MARTIN Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull and boring and omnipresent
Criticize things yo...
STEVE MARTIN Carl Reiner. He had an entrenched sense of glee; he used humor as a gentle way of speaking difficult...
STEVE MARTIN career in the irrational world of creativity not only made sense but had moral purpose.
STEVE MARTIN Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between mom...
STEVE MARTIN Doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.
STEVE MARTIN These word games bothered and intrigued me. Appearing to be silly nonsense, on examination they were...
STEVE MARTIN In logic class, I opened my textbook—the last place I was expecting to find comic inspiration—an...
STEVE MARTIN In a sense, this book is not an autobiography but a biography, because I am writing about someone I ...
STEVE MARTIN pinching my swollen fingers in between. Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one elemen...
STEVE MARTIN One day I was particularly gloomy, and Jim asked me what the matter was. I told him my high school g...
STEVE MARTIN Enjoyment while performing was rare—enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that come...
STEVE MARTIN You’re nuts, but you’re welcome here.
STEVE MARTIN I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding t...
STEVE MARTIN But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h...
STEVE MARTIN ...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
STEVE MARTIN Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
STEVE MARTIN It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are...
STEVE MARTIN What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and n...
STEVE MARTIN Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
STEVE MARTIN ...My father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled "What". He shouted, "You heard...
STEVE MARTIN In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the...
STEVE MARTIN I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, w...
STEVE MARTIN But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way:
1) Babies a...
STEVE MARTIN My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the...
STEVE MARTIN How many people have never raised their hand before?
STEVE MARTIN I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this st...
STEVE MARTIN Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: na�...
STEVE MARTIN You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This ...
STEVE MARTIN I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
STEVE MARTIN A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death...
MARTIN Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN Everybody can be great.
Because anybody can serve..
You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul gene...
MARTIN A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
STEVE LARGENT YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.
STEVE CHEN We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK Ultimately, the bread and butter of McDonald's is delivering great service, great quality food, ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those specie...
STEVE IRWIN There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on.
STEVE CHEN The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
STEVE COOGAN Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk....
STEVE IRWIN The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
STEVE IRWIN So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
STEVE IRWIN No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
STEVE IRWIN I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
STEVE IRWIN I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we ...
STEVE IRWIN That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from...
STEVE IRWIN We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been s...
STEVE IRWIN Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
STEVE IRWIN The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm get...
STEVE IRWIN When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to...
STEVE IRWIN No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted wi...
STEVE IRWIN I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet...
STEVE IRWIN Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
STEVE IRWIN Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
STEVE IRWIN Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
STEVE IRWIN