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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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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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'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
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Acting is the only thing that makes me happy.
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Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn't need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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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.
