Demetri Martin Quotes
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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I choose to live in the present because when you suffer from chronic illness, you don't have a choice. It's day by day, one foot in front of the other. When there is a good day, you soak up that moment. Those 'good selfie' moments are captured because they're a gift.
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Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, 'Lay it not too much to heart.' Let them adopt the maxim, 'Better luck next time'; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
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And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.
