David Antin Quotes

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Problem
  • Possible
  • Theory

• I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

  

  Faith Hill
  • God
  • Kids
  • Me

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Very

• Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • Feel
  • Look

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Past
  • Education

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Character
  • American
  • Strong

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
  • Me
  • Son

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Actor

• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Happy
  • Growth

• My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but freedom that I can just sing over the top, and it will be appreciated. It won't be like, 'What is he doing?'

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Song
  • Freedom
  • Candy

• Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • Today
  • Small
  • Party

• For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

  

  David Antin
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