"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

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David Antin

#Experts Quotes #Want Quotes #Range Quotes

“Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.”

Source : Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.68, Penguin UK
“Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.”
“Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.”
“Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'”
“I like action more than anything touchy-feely.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”
“A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.”
“The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.”

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