Henry Rollins Quotes

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

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• I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.

  

  Levi Woodbury
  • Knowledge
  • Justice
  • Decision

• I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

  

  Charles Bukowski

• Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Persistence

• It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Today

• Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
  • Good
  • Real
  • Sex

• You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

  

  George Foreman
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Husband

• Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Funny
  • President
  • Humor

• I have great relationships with all my exes, and everyone in my life, because I honor the time and the love and the energy of those relationships. I'm happy to say that I can have everybody over for dinner.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Energy
  • Honor
  • Dinner

• Every junkie is like a setting sun.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Sun
  • Junkie

• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Smoke
  • Cigarettes
  • Junkie

• Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Soul
  • Easy
  • Shoes

• The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Reason
  • Slave

• Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

  

  Darcey Steinke
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Junkie

• When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam Fogarino. Greg ex-drummer is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Capable
  • Contribution
  • Drummer

• When I get home and people ask me,'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you. And that's it. That's all it is.

  

  Black Hawk
  • Understand
  • Junkie
  • Goddamn Word

• I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

  

  Kevin Pollak
  • Great
  • Small

• Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Good
  • Great

• Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Prosperity
  • Require

• One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Time
  • Human
  • Sing

• There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Junkie
  • Exes