David Antin Quotes

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

David Antin

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• When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Never
  • Radio
  • Interviews

• It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Know
  • Alive
  • Legacy

• Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Community
  • Value

• I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Years
  • Old

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mother
  • Read
  • Cards

• I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Real
  • Definitely
  • Streak

• I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Woman

• I was traveling a lot as a young actor, and while in a new city, I'd want to see the place, so I would just put on my trainers and go for a jog. And the more I did that, the more I found I was traveling longer and longer distances. I just fell into it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • City
  • Young

• As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• Many of my clients have become close friends, and that informs the clothing I design for them. Julianna Margulies was introduced to me by her publicist many years ago, and we've been good friends ever since.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Design

• When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movies
  • Young
  • Level

• I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Fat

• If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Think
  • Small

• Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Daily

• I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Travel

• I want more girls' nights, more dinner parties, more date nights, more nights on the couch with zucchini fries watching bad reality television.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Bad
  • Reality

• A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

  

  Euripides
  • Children
  • Hateful
  • Second Wife

• Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • Today
  • Computer
  • Written

• I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

  

  David Antin