Henry Rollins Quotes
I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.
Quotes to Explore
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.
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I act this way because that's the way I feel like acting. If people like it, fine. If they don't, that's their problem.
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If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I, too, have stars/ and blue depths.
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I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.
