David Antin Quotes

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

David Antin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 1, 1932

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The roads in Boston suck. Highways included. There are potholes and bumps all over the place. It's not a fun place to drive.

Joey Kramer

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Strip malls are history.

Jeff Bezos

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Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

Stokely Carmichael

LiveChildrenBlackYouWhiteNow

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

Steve Martin

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My dad doesn't watch 'Coronation Street.' But my mum is a massive fan. I'd like to think my dad will watch it for a few token episodes, as I'm in it.

Rob James-Collier

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My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

Rudy Giuliani

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I was very well received by Dortmund, by the whole club. I felt a lot of love; a footballer is stronger when he has confidence.

Michy Batshuayi

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I'll cop to this: so much of doing a 22-episode show is just keeping your head above water.

Joshua Jackson

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I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

Douglas Wilson

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What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

Donald Sutherland

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Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.

Anne Robinson

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The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Pierre Bourdieu

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