Henry Rollins Quotes
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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If you just say nothing, there is no way they can make you talk.
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I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.
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I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
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'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.
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I’m not a paper doll. Can’t make me what you want. You just build me up and tear me down. Enough’s enough. Go, leave me alone. Cut me down but I won’t fall. I’m not a paper doll.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
