Demetri Martin Quotes

As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.

Demetri Martin

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In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.

Jerry Jeff Walker

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For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.

John Edgar Wideman

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I was the oldest model in South Africa - I grew up in South Africa, but I was born in Canada - and then when I moved back to Canada, to Toronto, at 42, I was a grandmother doing front covers. I was the oldest model in Canada.

Maye Musk

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Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

Amelie Mauresmo

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America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.

Tucker Carlson

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You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

Robert E. Lee

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When I do something, I don't want to be second best. That's the right way.

Miguel Cabrera

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I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

Jon Secada

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I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.

Dolores O'Riordan

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Where I'm at in my relationship with my wife or my family and life in general, I feel like it all comes out in the music. Hopefully, it's always there, but in an ambiguous and abstract way and not real straightforward.

Dierks Bentley

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