Demetri Martin Quotes
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Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.
Yair Lapid
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In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.
Sam Brownback
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
Felix Frankfurter
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I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.
Nadia Comaneci
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
Umberto Eco
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
Samuel Johnson
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
Aristotle
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Confession: Imagine if love, not law, was the standard by which we learned to examine ourselves and confess our sins against God, neighbor, and the earth we share. Imagine if each week we were guided into the kind of self-examination that helped us name and turn from our unloving acts in recent days. And imagine if, along with confessing our sins, we confessed or named our hurts, the places where others have wounded us, so that we could process our pain and then respond in a way that doesn’t give in to resentment or revenge.
Brian D. McLaren
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We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's what they've been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet.
Kristi Noem
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Today, technology asks too much of people.
Chad Hurley
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Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don't understand my appeal.
Lewis Capaldi
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I never set out to do a sketch show.
Demetri Martin