Henry Rollins Quotes

The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers) no one sees! I go on tour.... (whispers) no one knows! NINJA! I was never here!

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• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Wise

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

  

  Jack Hanna
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  • Doing
  • Find

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Band
  • Best

• I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Loyalty
  • Efficiency
  • Fifty

• It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?

  

  Laura Miller
  • City
  • Wonder
  • Looking

• As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Emotional
  • Eat
  • Soothe

• We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Should
  • Citizens

• I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Advice
  • Patience
  • Loved

• If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

  

  Val McDermid
  • You
  • Goodbye
  • Prizes

• I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Welcome

• The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • House

• A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Men
  • Together

• Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Religious

• I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Long
  • Character
  • Fun

• Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Men
  • Age
  • Teach

• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Political

• You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Risk
  • Director

• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Technology
  • Rule
  • Efficiency

• The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers) no one sees! I go on tour.... (whispers) no one knows! NINJA! I was never here!

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag