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.
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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'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
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Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
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How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.
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Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire
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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.
