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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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.'
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I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'
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I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.
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I don't buy cars I can't drive.
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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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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According to the general equilibrium approach to monetary theory, the principal way in which financial policies and events affect aggregate demand is by changing the valuations of physical assets relative to their replacement costs.
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I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.
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I held my breath, for to me there is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man discovers to you the nakedness of his soul.
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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.
