Alexi Zentner Quotes
There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.
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There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.
