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40 Jonathan Antin Quotes On Loving What You Do

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1 year ago

Apr 8, 2023

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Jonathan Antin is an American businessman and TV personality. He is most famously recognized for his former business ventures in Los Angeles, the salons ‘Jonathan Salon West Hollywood’ and ‘Jonathan Salon Beverly Hills’ which had welcomed high-profile celebrities.

Antin’s many experiences as an entrepreneur and a celebrity hairstylist successfully became his basis for his venture into some of the very popular reality TV shows, such as ‘Blow Out’ and ‘Shear Genius’. Moreover, he is also well-known for his self-developed hair care product line which broke the record for being the top haircare launch during the year 2005 as deemed by the popular shopping channel ‘QRC’.

Here’s a collection of the greatest Jonathan Antin quotes:

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40 Jonathan Antin Quotes On Loving What You Do

1. “We wanted to make this as realistic as possible. We didn’t want people picking up garbage off the street and creating hair accessories — or making hair out of garbage. That never happens.” – Jonathan Antin

2. “So, I mentioned it to my sister Robin — this is my sister who owns the Pussycat Dolls — and she said, ‘First of all, if you became a hairstylist, I’ll have every girl in LA coming to you, and second of all, you gotta see the movie “Shampoo” because it’ll make you want to be a hairstylist.’ So I saw the movie, and I was sold.” – Jonathan Antin

3. “I was booked solid a month in advance before the age of 20. I was on such a fast-track.” – Jonathan Antin

4. “I was 16 years old, and I had just gotten my first car … and as a good grandson I went to go pick up my grandmother at a beauty school where she was having her hair done.” – Jonathan Antin

5. “I did all the shows and all the photoshoots. I was an apprentice, and I was grinding … taking every job I could get.” – Jonathan Antin

6. “I’m a hairstylist. All hairstylists are going to tune into ‘Shear Genius’ at least a couple of times. They’re gonna tune in. It’s about us. I checked it out. I looked at it online, went to the website, and I thought it was cool, but I didn’t really remember any of the storylines. By the way, I never watched one episode of ‘Blow Out.’ I would see bits and pieces at the end of each day, some of the dailies.” – Jonathan Antin

7. “I apprenticed at Fashion Week. Then I left New York and went to Milan, and I did the same thing in Milan for about six months. I went from Milan to Paris to London to Milan to Paris to London. I had a Eurorail pass, and I just kept making circles on the train.” – Jonathan Antin

8. “Jonathan Product, my line of hair care, was booming and exploding worldwide.” – Jonathan Antin

9. “I was in an acting class and was on the ice hockey team. I was like … a dude. I thought I was going to be a movie star one day, but I went home, and I thought about it. There was just something about it. It was just so easy for me to draw this hair, and I knew I could sculpt it with a piece of clay. I was just curious as to whether or not I could cut someone’s hair.” – Jonathan Antin

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10. “I had my son obviously on Blow Out and I had a daughter.” – Jonathan Antin

11. “Well, after ‘Blow Out,’ I needed a break. I had two children. I had one of them on ‘Blow Out,’ a son Asher, and then I had my daughter, Jocie. I needed a break to be a dad and a husband.” – Jonathan Antin

12. “I don’t think there’s anyone better in the world than me. I think there might be someone as good as me but not better and that’s because I do everything perfectly.” – Jonathan Antin

13. “Every week, there’s something going on. I’m getting ready to go on The Today Show. I’ve been on 4 times in the last 6 weeks, which is unheard of. I have the Oscars coming up. I’m doing George Clooney and his girlfriend for that. There’s a lot going on. It’s great.” – Jonathan Antin

14. “I got a lot of experience in styling in Europe, and my cutting and coloring came from LA. So, the combination of the two really gave me a different edge. I ended up becoming the key hairstylist at Milan, Paris, London, and New York Fashion Week … running my own shows because I had this ability to speak to a designer and draw what they were thinking.” – Jonathan Antin

15. “I absolutely am in touch with the stylists. They’re all family. They’re like my kids. I definitely think of the possibility of coming back with it. Obviously, my product line, Jonathan Product, was a huge part of the show.” – Jonathan Antin

16. “Jonathan Product was just blowing up, and I couldn’t do 24 hours a day with a camera in front of me anymore. I was out of town every other week … bringing the family with me … and it was just too much.” – Jonathan Antin

17. “I was doing such huge jobs before I was even great. I was good, but I could cover it up. I could fake it.” – Jonathan Antin

18. “Reveille is like family to me and they are directly responsible for … I was already a big hairstylist, but they helped me launch my product and they brought my name to a whole other medium, and I’ll never forget that. We talked about it. It was good for both sides, and I signed a three-year deal and started shooting.” – Jonathan Antin

19. “I was sitting in the beauty school with her in Hollywood, and the instructor was up at the chalkboard drawing heads of hair and teaching this one type of haircut. At the time, I didn’t know what he was talking about, but it was basically a bob.” – Jonathan Antin

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20. “It’s my job to weed out the bad apples. I don’t think it hurts to hear the harsh truth. I think that’s what the show is about. I’m not so sure it helps someone be better. It really depends on where you’re at and what you take out of it and what you make out.” – Jonathan Antin

21. “I make sure that you’re not leaving until every single hair is where I want it to be. That’s my belief system. That’s it. It starts and stop right there.” – Jonathan Antin

22. “I think that if you watch the show, you’ll share the same feelings with me in that Janine and Jon and Matthew are all really great stylists but what’s happening is that as the season gets deeper into its episodes, some of the people I considered to be the bottom tier are starting to replace those top tier, top-shelf hairstylists.” – Jonathan Antin

23. “When people spoke of me they said, ‘He’s this cool, young dude. He’s a great stylist. He’s a great artist, and he’s straight.’ I remember these are the things people would say.” – Jonathan Antin

24. “I see myself as good a stylist as there is.” – Jonathan Antin

25. “I dropped out of high school and enrolled in beauty school. It was easy. I saw hair in a different way than other people.” – Jonathan Antin

26. “I really didn’t want the kids to be on camera, and I see all those other couples on reality TV who end up getting divorced, so I tried to keep mine off of TV. I was kinda superstitious about that.” – Jonathan Antin

27. “I think it’s a good show. I think it’s an easy show to relate to.” – Jonathan Antin

28. “People like watching shows about beauty and hair because it’s important to us. I think that has a lot to do with why there are so many viewers.” – Jonathan Antin

29. “It’s pretty crazy in the way that things will start to unravel from tonight’s episode on.” – Jonathan Antin

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30. “There’s $100,000 on the line and hundreds of thousands of people that wanted to be on the show.” – Jonathan Antin

31. “Jonathan Product, today, is a different world than it was then. It’s worldwide. I was just in Dubai. I was just in Prague. [I’m on] QVC and [in] Sephora … it’s larger than life.” – Jonathan Antin

32. “I never watched my own show. I don’t like watching myself on TV. It’s kinda weird.” – Jonathan Antin

33. “After my apprenticeship, I left LA and I moved to New York as I was turning 18.” – Jonathan Antin

34. “Being a loudmouthed 16-year-old punk, I said to my grandmother — because I can draw; I can sculpt; I can basically make or draw or paint anything I’m looking at — this guy doesn’t even know how to draw. He was drawing heads of hair that looked like extraterrestrial-shaped heads. Well, he heard me and came over to me and said, ‘Excuse me. I was in the middle of a class, and that was a little rude. Do you think you know how to do better?’ I said, ‘I know I know how to do better,’ and I went up to the chalkboard, and I drew three heads of hair for him. I handed him the chalk, and I said, ‘That’s how you draw a head of hair, dude.’ And on my way out, the principal of the school came over to me and handed me a business card, and asked, ‘You ever thought about being a hairstylist?’ I said, Never. Not in a million years.” – Jonathan Antin

35. “With Blow Out, I had the cameras around me so much, 24/7, and I just got to the point where I had had enough” – Jonathan Antin

36. “Doing a lot of covers and getting my name in magazines. It then translated into doing celebrity [and working with] clothiers who would hire me to do their campaigns.” – Jonathan Antin

37. “I had a serious advantage with this ability because I could show them what I was going to do. I could actually draw camera-ready artwork that looked like it was going to walk down the runway. Real hair … exactly the way they wanted it. And I could make changes right there with a piece of charcoal in my hand.” – Jonathan Antin

38. “The premiere was the highest-rated Shear Genius episode ever.” – Jonathan Antin

39. “I needed some time. I needed a break to hang out with the family and work. I took a break and Bravo came to me and said that we want you to do Shear Genius. I thought, “Yeah, why not? I’ll get back in the ring.” – Jonathan Antin

40. “Well, my training doesn’t solely come from Los Angeles. I did my apprenticeship in LA, in the same salon that I then purchased and owned for 22 years.” – Jonathan Antin

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Athlete Quotes

43 Motivational Peyton Manning Quotes

Published

1 year ago

Jun 21, 2023

Dan Western

Peyton Manning, now 40 years old, was a professional American football player. He played as a star quarterback in the NFL for 18 seasons.

He is considered to have been one of the best quarterbacks of all time, originally playing for the Indianapolis Colts, and finishing the last four season of his career playing for the Denver Broncos.

Check out our collection of the most motivational Peyton Manning quotes:

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43 Motivational Peyton Manning Quotes

1. “I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don’t agree with. I’m thinking, ‘Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'” – Peyton Manning

2. “Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes a follower.” – Peyton Manning

3. “Everybody is going to be excited to play in a Super Bowl. When you still enjoy the preparation and the work part of it, I think you ought to be still doing that. I think as soon as I stop enjoying it, if I can’t produce, if I can’t help a team, that’s when I will stop playing.” – Peyton Manning

4. “I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don’t agree with. I’m thinking, ‘Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.’” – Peyton Manning

5. “I want to be out there every single snap, every single play.” – Peyton Manning

6. “I’m not 23 anymore. But the defensive ends and linebackers chasing me are. If I had to chose between youth and experience, I’d take experience every time.” – Peyton Manning

7. “I’m very humbled and I’m very honored. I certainly think about how grateful I am for all the teammates and coached that I’ve played with and played for throughout my career.” – Peyton Manning

8. “I’ve never left the field saying, ‘I could’ve done more to get ready,’ and that gives me peace of mind.” – Peyton Manning

9. “Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.” – Peyton Manning

10. “It’s not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it’s refusing to fail.” – Peyton Manning

11. “My dad was a class person on and off the field. That’s the person I want to be.” – Peyton Manning

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12. “Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.” – Peyton Manning

13. “Some people have this impression of me: ‘Boy, he’s always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.’” – Peyton Manning

14. “When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don’t look past what’s going on now, because you are not sure what’s going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.” – Peyton Manning

15. “You’ve got to remember what your priorities are. When you’re playing, what you do on the field is the most important thing.“ – Peyton Manning

16. “My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for ‘Reggie-isms,’ kind of like ‘Yogi-isms.’ He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, ‘You mean ambidextrous, coach?'” – Peyton Manning

17. “Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It’s all about accountability. I hear stuff about the ‘toughest quarterback in the league’ and all that; what’s that mean?” – Peyton Manning

18. “I don’t want to retire. I still want to play.” – Peyton Manning

19. “I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don’t talk about it or brag about it because that’s between God and me, and I’m no better than anybody else in God’s sight.” – Peyton Manning

20. “I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.” – Peyton Manning

21. “I’m proud to be Archie’s son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.” – Peyton Manning

22. “I’ve been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that’s the reality of playing in the NFL.” – Peyton Manning

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“If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I’m all about. I know I’d better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.” – Peyton Manning

24. “It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it’s just an absolutely huge win.” – Peyton Manning

25. “Life is about choices. You ask the questions and you listen to the answers. Then you listen to your heart.” – Peyton Manning

26. “My faith doesn’t make me perfect, it makes me forgiven.” – Peyton Manning

27. “Remind your critics when they say you don’t have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the titanic.” – Peyton Manning

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28. “We’ve been working a long time for this and we want to accomplish our ultimate goal. We know what it takes.” – Peyton Manning

29. “When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you’re not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That’s football. That’s why everybody plays it.” – Peyton Manning

30. “The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.” – Peyton Manning

31. “Boy, do I hate to lose.” – Peyton Manning

32. “I guess, to tell you the truth, I’ve never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I’ve managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache.” – Peyton Manning

33. “I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway’s arm, Dan Marino’s release, maybe Troy Aikman’s drop-back, Brett Favre’s scrambling ability, Joe Montana’s two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.” – Peyton Manning

34. “I would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it’s time to stop. I don’t want to be a guy who hung on and on. I do not have a goal in mind of a year or a statistic.” – Peyton Manning

35. “I’m the best manning.” – Peyton Manning

36. “I’ve been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I’m not sure you can have a legacy when you’re 25 years old. Even 37. I’d like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I’m not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.” – Peyton Manning

37. “If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.” – Peyton Manning

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“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.” – Peyton Manning

39. “My dad told us up front, ‘Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it’s your decision.’” – Peyton Manning

40. “My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.” – Peyton Manning

41. “Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they’re bitter. Not me.” – Peyton Manning

42. “When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.” – Peyton Manning

43. “You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.” – Peyton Manning

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Actor Quotes

25 Inspirational Robert De Niro Quotes

Published

1 year ago

Jun 21, 2023

Dan Western

Robert De Niro is an American/Italian actor and producer;

At 73 years old, he’s had an incredibly successful career, and starred in a ridiculous number of films. Far too many to list, but here’s a few of the highlights:

The Godfather Part II
Silver Linings
Analyze This
The Intern
Casino
Meet the Fockers
Goodfellas
Grudge Match

We’ve put together this small, yet inspirational collection of the best Robert De Niro quotes:

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25 Inspirational Robert De Niro Quotes

1. “You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.” – Robert De Niro

2. “The talent is in the choices.” – Robert De Niro

3. “One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.” – Robert De Niro

4. “You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.” – Robert De Niro

5. “I love to find new people. It’s not for the sake of their being new; it’s because if you find someone who perfectly fits a part, that’s such a great thing.” – Robert De Niro

6. “It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.” – Robert De Niro

7. “Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.” – Robert De Niro

8. “Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.” – Robert De Niro

9. “The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.” – Robert De Niro

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“There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.” – Robert De Niro

11. “I didn’t have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you’re rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You’re behind the eight ball when you go in there.” – Robert De Niro

12. “In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.” – Robert De Niro

13. “I think it’s important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.” – Robert De Niro

14. “I don’t like to watch my own movies – I fall asleep in my own movies.” – Robert De Niro

15. “I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character – do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.” – Robert De Niro

16. “With ‘Silver Linings,’ I didn’t feel – I was thinking of certain things, but I just said, ‘Let me go with it.’ You have to know what you’re doing, where you’re going with the scenes, and I put a lot of work into that. But when you’re out there, at the same time you gotta be ready for anything.” – Robert De Niro

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17. “Don’t be afraid to do what your instincts tell you.” – Robert De Niro

18. “You discovered a talent, developed an ambition and recognized your passion. When you feel that, you can’t fight it — you just go with it.” – Robert De Niro

19. “Life rarely changes you totally but it consistently changes you in details.” – Robert De Niro

20. “I don’t feel pressure. I like if anybody has interest in what I have to say, especially if they’re younger. If they like me, respect me, I’m honoured and I’ll give them my opinion.” – Robert De Niro

21. “I am also not one for regrets. I don’t regret any film I’ve made, because there was a reason for making it at the time. If it hasn’t worked out, then don’t spend time worrying about why and how. Just move on to the next project.” – Robert De Niro

22. “Being able to battle it out. No matter how you do it, you gotta hold your ground at times. Other times you’ve got to compromise. But never a compromise that you can’t live with.” – Robert De Niro

23. “If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it.” – Robert De Niro

24. “Rejection might sting, but my feeling is that often, it has very little to do with you.” – Robert De Niro

25. “You’re not responsible for the entire job, but your part in it… You will put your everything into everything you do.” – Robert De Niro

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Athlete Quotes

25 Motivational Stephen Curry Quotes About Success

Published

1 year ago

Jun 21, 2023

Dan Western

Stephen Curry is a professional NBA player, currently playing as Point Guard for the Golden State Warriors. He’s considered to be one of the best shooters in NBA history.

Curry won the MVP (Most Valuable Player) award in 2015, and has won a number of other awards proving how successful he’s becoming at his sport.

If you’re a fan of motivational videos, do a quick search in YouTube for “Stephen Curry motivation”, and you’ll see some awesome stuff.

This article is dedicated to the most motivational Stephen Curry quotes on basketball and success:

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25 Motivational Stephen Curry Quotes

1. “I’ve never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies… I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I’m ready for the moment.” – Stephen Curry

2. “I want to practice to the point where it’s almost uncomfortable how fast you shoot, so that in the game things kind of slow down.” – Stephen Curry

3. “Make sure you live in the moment and work your butt off every single day, and I hope I inspire people all around the world to just be themselves. Be humble, and be grateful for all the blessings in your life.” – Stephen Curry

4. “Being a superstar means you’ve reached your potential, and I don’t think I’ve reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.” – Stephen Curry

5. “Be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.” – Stephen Curry

6. “We have to have the mentality that we have to work for everything we’re going to get.” – Stephen Curry

7. “Play like you’re in first. Train like you’re in second.” – Stephen Curry

8. “If you take time to realize what your dream is and what you really want in life — no matter what it is, whether it’s sports or in other fields — you have to realize that there is always work to do, and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do, and you put yourself in a position to be successful. And you have to have a passion about what you do.” – Stephen Curry

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9. “If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?” – Stephen Curry

10. “I do a little sign on the court every time I make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky – it symbolizes that I have a heart for God. It’s something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time i step on the floor as a reminder of who I’m playing for.” – Stephen Curry

11. “I’m not the guy who’s afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.” – Stephen Curry

12. “Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.” – Stephen Curry

13. “Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles.” – Stephen Curry

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14. “There’s more to me than just this jersey I wear.” – Stephen Curry

15. “I’d rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who’s sitting at home in May.” – Stephen Curry

16. “I can do all things.” – Stephen Curry

17. “Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I’m going to make it.” – Stephen Curry

18. “I can get better. I haven’t reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.” – Stephen Curry

19. “I can’t say enough, how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am.” – Stephen Curry

20. “I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it’s been a great ride and I’m not done yet…” – Stephen Curry

21. “Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive.” – Stephen Curry

22. “Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.” – Stephen Curry

23. “Basketball was mine, and that’s what’s carried me to this point.” – Stephen Curry

24. “The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.” – Stephen Curry

25. “It’s all about winning. Stats really don’t matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it’s all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.” – Stephen Curry

Summary

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