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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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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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 don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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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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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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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 hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of 'The Sopranos,' which is some of the most sophisticated writing I've ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I've ever seen - and it's a TV show.
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I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
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I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said 'Guess'.
