Demetri Martin Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.
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I love all things Christmas.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.
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When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.
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Let's start with the athlete, Nike's original and most important collaborator. To us, everything starts with the insight. That's why we work with the deepest roster of athletes, to gain the most profound understanding of what's needed to perform.
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Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.
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Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.
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I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said 'Guess'.
