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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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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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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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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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'm not good at accepting help.
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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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I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
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I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.
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If they don't let us in through the front? We'll come through the side!
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Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.
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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.
