Demetri Martin Quotes
It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.
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When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.
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It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
