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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I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.
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The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.
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The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
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I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.
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It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
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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.
