Demetri Martin Quotes
I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
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If Bitcoin is a better gold or seen as a type of gold-like asset, then it could be in the trillions on a market cap.
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As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.
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I'm ready to encourage and support people on their journey because I've been encouraged and supported. I just hope I make people proud.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.
