Demetri Martin Quotes
I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
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I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
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The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
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I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.
