Henry Rollins Quotes
We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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My hero is Roger Federer.
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My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
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It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.
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One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.
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We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
