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'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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I'd like to be remembered as someone who kept the comic novel going for another generation or so. I fear the comic novel is in retreat. A joke is by definition politically incorrect - it assumes a butt, and a certain superiority in the teller. The culture won't put up with that for much longer.
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The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
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Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.
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I think with any challenge or any matchup, I can have my own personal feelings of what I want, but it really all depends on our audience. Our job is to give them the best entertainment that we feel is right. If it's something that they want to see, they'll be loud and vocal about it, and we'll do it.
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If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
