David Antin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
-
That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
-
The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
-
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
-
In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
-
You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
-
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
-
I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
-
Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
-
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
-
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
-
I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I will be known as 'Dallas' starring Larry Hagman and the cast.' And at this point in my career - I was in my mid to late 30s - I thought, 'Now is the time when it's hottest for me to go out and establish my thing.'
-
I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
-
The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.
-
Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
-
When you call me that, smile!
-
The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shudderingfrom the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:the long, perfect loveliness of sow.
-
I make music to make you sick of fake music - hate music like devil worshippin' Satan music. So say your prayers - your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.
-
Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.
-
...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.
-
Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.
-
And if it is true that we acquired our knowledge before our birth, and lost it at the moment of birth, but afterward, by the exercise of our senses upon sensible objects, recover the knowledge which we had once before, I suppose that what we call learning will be the recovery of our own knowledge . . . PLATO
-
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
-
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
