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.

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• Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Food
  • Single
  • Environmental

• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Truth
  • Hurt
  • Unless

• When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Crazy
  • Yoga
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Golf
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• 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.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Nice
  • Start
  • Building

• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Look
  • Will
  • Back

• I don't buy cars I can't drive.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Drive
  • Buy

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Kind
  • Water
  • Pool

• My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Grandparents
  • Holocaust

• 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.'

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • History
  • Past
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Magic

• Be, as you have been, my happiness;Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Night
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Home
  • Experience

• Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Father
  • Knowledge

• I remember when we were shooting Boogie Nights, all of my stand-ins were wiping out all the time. I'd practice before I got to the set, but they'd just show up and put on the roller-skates, and they'd be skating over these wires and cables, so they would all fall over. It was totally dangerous.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Cables
  • Wires
  • Boogie Nights

• I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Athlete

• If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Why

• It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Work
  • Energy

• Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.

  

  Demetri Martin