Orth Quotes

#1. Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

Zak Orth

#2. The mythology of black women as promiscuous was important to maintaining the profitable exploitation of slave society. In freedom, it remained important as a means of racial and gender control.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#3. That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

Tupac Shakur

#4. Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

Zak Orth

#5. Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.

Elliott Carter

#6. I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

Zak Orth

#7. My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

Sara Zarr

#8. You know how before a party you clean up your house so that everyone thinks you live that way all the time? That's meeting someone at an awards show.

Lauren Graham

#9. I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Paul Scofield

#10. BOLD Immersion was about exposing students to a talented and diverse community, learning about the technology industry from a non-technical point of view, and growing my skills.

Moses

#11. I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

Zak Orth

#12. I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

Steven Wright

#13. With forbidden, seething Havana waiting to open up nearby, South Beach is a riot of loose luxe and easy sleazy, where dancing the night away amid hundreds of tanned, undulating bodies is a standard prelude to hot, anonymous sex.

Maureen Orth

#14. As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

Zak Orth

#15. Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.

Felipe Esparza

#16. Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

Lord Chesterfield

#17. See ... What I felt they should have done, for our first public works project, is build a giant wall ... across the entire border of Canada. Because that's where the cold air comes from.

Lewis Black