Henry Rollins Quotes
It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
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The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
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Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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I believe everything is about balance. I'm not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody.
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The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
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My sister is raised to know her value and to know that she stands behind no man. You know, when she gets a husband, you stand side by side, equal partnership. You stand behind no one cause you have to lift each other up. You can't do that if you're 30 percent of the value in your relationship or the household.
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It was like a cliche for the parents in my hometown to let their kids watch 'Friends.' I had no interest at first, because I could not understand a word.
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Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.
