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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People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
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It’s often described as a cool war that we are entering – I would say it is feeling exceptionally chilly at the moment.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.
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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.
