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" My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal. "
Demetri Martin
Garbage
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Own
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" I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. "
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" Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time. "
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" I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. "
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" I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale. "
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" I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me. "
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" When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding. "
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" And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money. "
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" Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron. "
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" There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time. "
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" Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival. "
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" The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. "
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" 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. "
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" I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me. "
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" I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming. "
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" I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.' "
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" People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy. "
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" I'm always excited to try something I haven't done. "
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" I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.' "
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" 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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" If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half. "
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" A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive. "
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" The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience. "
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" I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up. "
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" I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. "
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" And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track. "
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