Eleanor Antin Quotes

#1. Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.

Erik Paulsen

#2. Bugs Bunny is my muse.

Billy Collins

#3. [There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.

Eleanor Antin

#4. I love writing songs.

Sade Adu

#5. What is the origin of God?

John Clayton

#6. Why should I be limited by my own biography?

Eleanor Antin

#7. If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I went to Jesuit schools that focused on first there's grammar, then there's rhetoric, and rhetoric's usually seen as a kind of degraded method, because you're trying to persuade.

Vito Acconci

#8. Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.

Eleanor Antin

#9. I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

Judith Light

#10. no correspondence is intended between any institutions or characters in this book and any real institutions or people living, dead, or wandering the night in ghostly torment.

Douglas Adams

#11. But isn't whipping some poor bastard's ass what Dominatrices do? I mean,at least that's what they do in pornos. Oh God, you don't want to pee on me do you? ". She shot him a dirty look and he grinned. "What?

Ann Mayburn

#12. I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

Lajos Kossuth

#13. At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert ... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my fate as a woman to other victims throughout the ages.

Heather Hart

#14. I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

Eleanor Antin

#15. You are the only good reason.

Katja Millay

#16. Didn't need to fear the Lord on Josephat either, just the idiots who thought they knew His will.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#17. The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.

Eleanor Antin

#18. I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.

Eleanor Antin

#19. Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#20. You might as well get used to it."
"What, fish? Trust me, I'm plenty used to fish."
"No," he said. "Letting me protect you.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#21. I do have impossibly high standards.

Kate Winslet

#22. The Internet is not a place. It's a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

Eleanor Antin