Zak Orth Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
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Growing up in Singapore, I wasn't allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding.
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I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.
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Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
