Demetri Martin Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
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When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.
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I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.
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The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
