Henry Rollins Quotes
All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.
Quotes to Explore
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
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Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
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When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
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Contrast is the dramatist's method.
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When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
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It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.
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All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
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From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.
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All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.
