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.
Abel Korzeniowski -
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.
Kate Moss -
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
Walter Smith -
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.
Adam Garcia -
Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
Yair Lapid -
The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
Natalie Massenet
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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.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
D. H. Lawrence -
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory -
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler -
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov
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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.
Gary Numan -
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
Igor Luksic -
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
Edmund White -
The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
Brown Campbell -
I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
Victoria Pendleton
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I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I am a consummate metaphor addict.
Jason Reynolds -
There is really nothing like doing a play in New York.
Jonathan Groff -
The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.
T. J. Jagodowski -
The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
Ralph Peters -
And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.
Demetri Martin