David Antin Quotes
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
Quotes to Explore
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski -
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.
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Playing in the NHL, it's a great job, it's a great life to live, and we just want to have the opportunity to do that. That's going to come from our hard work and dedication to the sport. As far as being black players in the league, obviously it's great.
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Time may change me, but I can't trace time.
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Something cannot emerge from nothing.
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My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
