Anthony Kiedis Quotes
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
-
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
-
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
-
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
-
There is no bore like a clever bore.
-
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
-
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
-
There's no regrets for me.
-
I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
-
In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
-
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
-
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
-
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
-
He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
-
We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
-
After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
-
Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
-
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as 'pets,' for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.
-
When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.
-
I don't bring religion into the square.
-
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
