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 wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
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The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
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Cynics: Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten.
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You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.
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My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.
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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.
