Alexi Zentner Quotes
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I'm not graceful.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
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The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
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Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
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Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
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Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.
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The story of trying to live up to the myth is more interesting than the myth itself.
