Demetri Martin Quotes

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

Demetri Martin

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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Audience

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Acting

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Good
  • Try
  • Hobby

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Good
  • Style
  • Caring

• Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Question

• If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Good
  • Think
  • You

• From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of high levels of consumption, increasing social inequality is not a society that can be part of the solution of the world's problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Leaving

• Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Learning

• One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't start as fanatics. They shift and evolve into that state. That's a process, a systematic process of losing your identity and sense of self.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • People
  • Time
  • Nature

• Every team begins the year with the goal of going to the NCAA tournament. And until somebody takes that dream away - and says, 'OK, we need those uniforms back tomorrow. We'll meet tomorrow for our end-of-the-year meeting' - you still pursue those dreams.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Team
  • Goal
  • Dreams

• I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Good
  • Sports