Henry Rollins Quotes
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.
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One can only be staggered by the hubris of modern artists if we compare them, say, to the humble builders of Chartres Cathedral whose names are not even known. The artist ought to be distinguished by selfless devotion to duty; but we forgot about that a long time ago.
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I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.
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I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
