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.
-
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
-
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.
-
My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
-
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 believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
-
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
-
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
-
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.
-
We are a possession of the United States. Congress has full authorization power over Puerto Rico.
-
But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
-
I think that I've had a very strange life.
-
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
-
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.
