David Antin Quotes
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
Quotes to Explore
-
I talk every day about doing the right thing.
-
I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
-
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
-
I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
-
I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
-
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
-
I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
-
Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
-
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
-
I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
-
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
-
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
-
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
-
The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
-
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
-
The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
-
Philosophy was once considered science.
-
I've got a serious-looking head.
-
I set up Droga5 because I really believe in the power of advertising. But I believe in the power of advertising that's in synch with what consumers want.
-
The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
-
I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.
-
Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.
-
That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have obligations. Get the writing done first, then be the person I want to be in other ways after that.
-
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
