Henry Rollins Quotes

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

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• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
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• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
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  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Football

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
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• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
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• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
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• I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Up
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• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
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• Being insecure – I'm a master, a virtuoso – they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Hope
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• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Now

• When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
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• The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  

  Edward Young

• When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Picture

• I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Writing
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• I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

  

  Jeremy Lin
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• Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.

  

  James Geary
  • Life

• If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?

  

  Charles Platt
  • Why
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• I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

• We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • Drug

• I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Knowledge
  • Movement
  • Desired

• No idea should be suppressed. … And it applies to ideas that look like nonsense. We must not forget that some of the best ideas seemed like nonsense at first. The truth will prevail in the end. Nonsense will fall of its own weight, by a sort of intellectual law of gravitation. If we bat it about, we shall only keep an error in the air a little longer. And a new truth will go into orbit.

  

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Truth
  • Ideas
  • Nonsense

• If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
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• If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

  

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