David Antin Quotes
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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'At Freddie's' takes place in 1960s London at the Temple Stage School for child actors. It has a plot that makes you feel sorry for the people who have to write summaries on the backs of books.
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I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and of human liberty. It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.
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Initially I thought: 'I would never get cast opposite Will Smith! No one would ever buy it with the age difference, our personalities.' I can't think of a couple that makes less sense in every way, shape and form.
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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
