Henry Rollins Quotes

You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

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• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Energy

• Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Human
  • Persons
  • Own

• The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Power
  • Persons

• Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Persons

• I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Magic

• I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Happy
  • Persons
  • Forte

• It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Alone

• I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • World
  • Persons
  • Distance

• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Running
  • Persons
  • Surveillance

• I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Persons
  • Made
  • Appreciation

• A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Friend
  • Acting
  • Persons

• There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Real
  • Career
  • Rest

• Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Want
  • Persons
  • Ifs

• She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Heart
  • She
  • Suffering

• Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Persons

• Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

  

  Kevin Bales
  • Violence
  • Persons
  • Slavery

• I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Hate
  • Reading
  • Persons

• I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • Persons
  • Accepting
  • Happened

• Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • America
  • Market
  • American enterprise

• One more thing," Megan said, stopping Doug in his tracks. His shoulders slumped and he turned around. "What? You want my kidney?" "I want in on the next ultimate Frisbee game," Megan said. Doug grinned. "You're playing skins." Megan grinned back. "We'll see about that.

  

  Kate Brian
  • Games
  • Skins
  • Ultimate

• You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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