Demetri Martin Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.
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I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say - it leaves me something to do.
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Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.
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With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.
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The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes successful and gets branded with a certain sound, if the brand starts to become more of the focus than the evolution of the art, then that's putting the cart before the horse.
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I grew up in my neighborhood with salsa, of course bachata, but also hip-hop, Nirvana - it was just like a mixed culture. It was a beautiful thing for me because at the moment I started creating music, having all these different sounds and elements, it was very organic because I grew up with all these types different music.
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My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.
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You know, you can only lead them from behind.
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Merkmal großer Menschen ist, daß sie an andere weit geringere Anforderungen stellen als an sich selbst.
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Waitin' on the pizzle, the dizzle and the shizzle G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo.
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In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek.
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All gone. Zelazny was one of the first times I looked at something I had had familiarity with to find the spot where the memory should have been empty, replaced by a scrawled 'Moved South for the Fishing' sign. Calculus was another loss. It was quite upsetting to reach for a skill and find nothing.
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The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
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Let no man's deathbed be a futon.
