Henry Rollins Quotes
I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
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I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
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A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.
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I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.
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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.
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The best education I have ever received was through travel.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"
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I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.
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I notice fashion on other people, I always enjoy it when people try and look their best, I've always been taught to try and look my best and that's probably my main influence, I'm not looking to influence fashion anymore than the next guy, but I do try and look my best when I'm out and representing my movies.
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As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
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I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.
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Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.
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I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.
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Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
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I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
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I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
