David Antin Quotes
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I aspire only to silence.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!
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I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
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I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
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My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.