Demetri Martin Quotes
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
Quotes to Explore
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
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I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'
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I don't buy cars I can't drive.
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
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I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.
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My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'
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The problem of establishing a perfect civic constitution is dependent upon the problem of a lawful external relation among states and cannot be solved without a solution of the latter problem.
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Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. To see the great showman sitting in the second row busily writing his telegrams is a thrill no actress can forget.
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Be, as you have been, my happiness;Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.
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The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter.
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I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason.
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Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
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I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
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Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
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Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
