Demetri Martin Quotes

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

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• A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Feeling
  • Opinion
  • Stand

• I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • City
  • Simple

• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Friend
  • Myself
  • Best

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Need
  • Involved
  • Charities

• The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Judge
  • Bible
  • Our Lives

• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • People
  • Fight
  • Rhythm

• I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Things
  • Comfort

• September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Best
  • Stand

• I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • People
  • Band
  • Rock

• I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • God
  • Father

• When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Policy

• Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Poetry

• The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

  

  William Ames
  • May
  • Creation
  • Understood

• I did an art show for Donald Trump at his house in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a bunch of pop art and stuff like that, so I wasn't doing any graffiti at that time, so I'd say from about 2000 to 2006, I wasn't doing any graffiti.

  

  Alec Monopoly
  • House
  • Show
  • Donald Trump

• Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

  

  John C. McGinley
  • Freedom
  • Speech
  • Programmed

• I believe that cleansing and hydrating is extremely important, especially with the environment's condition and the pollution around.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Environment

• If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

  

  Demetri Martin