David Antin Quotes
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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You have to open up on stage.
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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
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Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
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The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.
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Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.
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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
