M.C. Steve Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

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.

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.

Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.

We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

In my wildest dreams i never thought- well, I never thought I'd work

No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the where's he gone again?

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

A partner who rolls her eyes, sighs, turns away, sends a very toxic message.

I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.