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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Creative

“I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.”

Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“I like when people wear a WWJD bracelet, because it's like an example of the first thing Jesus wouldn't do, probably.”

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“I want to make a revolving door that says 'Pull' on it, just see how obedient people are.”

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“Surprise parties are strange 'cause people jump up and they yell the word, 'surprise' at the party. I came home and you emerged from my furniture. You don't have to tell me how to feel. I don't need a hint.”

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, "Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good." Hopefully it balances out.”

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Love

“I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.”

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Creative

“I wanna design a video game where you'd have to take care of all the people shot in all the other video games.”

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.”

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.”

Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“I think a lot of people who watch TV don't realize when they're watch TV shows and it says 'produced by' and producer, producer... there are all these producers. What the hell does a producer do? It's funny how much you have to worry about as a producer.”

Deng Xiaoping Politician
Courageous

“Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.”

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Denis Johnson Author, Poet
Happy

“Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.”

Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Spiritual

“Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words.”

Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Love

“So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.”

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Philosophical

“Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have.”

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Dennis Crowley Entrepreneur
Motivated

“Don't let other people distract what you're doing. There's always haters.”

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Dennis Franz Actor
Grateful

“I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.”

Dennis Miller Comedian
Angry

“The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.”