Demetri Martin Quotes
Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
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I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
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While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
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It's hard to connect to these superheroes that are completely out of this world. But Spider-Man is first and foremost Peter Parker, who we can all relate to.
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I would like to leave you with a couple of thoughts:
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a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.
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You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
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I was hired by the 'Tom Joyner Morning Show' to do commentary that makes people think. I want my audience to feel like they are learning and not being pandered to.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
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Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.
