Henry Rollins Quotes
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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Each material is only what we make it.
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It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.
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All things in moderation, including moderation.
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Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
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We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.
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Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.
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History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
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You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.
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I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.
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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.
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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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The subconscious mind is probably the most important factor in being a good golfer. It keeps distractions on the course from ruining a good round. You should practice, develop your swing, and do most of your thinking on the practice tee so that when you play in competition, you can hit the ball automatically.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
