Henry Rollins Quotes
Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
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There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
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Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
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Some black women hug me and walk away. A lot of black men talk about dating white women and how they've been there, too. People open up about their racial experiences. I feel like I'm a walking therapy session. It's quite intense. But it means a lot to people.
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We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
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I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.
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There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.
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Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.
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Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.
