Demetri Martin Quotes
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.
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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?
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One of the big goals of my administration will be to reposition Mexico again as an emerging power.
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Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.
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I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.
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I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'
