M.C. Steve Quotes

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the "Kazee" is not.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

I have always been very comfortable behind a microphone. I love talking about basketball, I love being around people, I love being around the game, the travel and the excitement around the arena.

For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

There's one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he's essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

Guys like me come along very seldom in the wrestling business. You can count 'em on a couple of fingers.

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.

Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.