Henry Rollins Quotes
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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I was born with an evil face.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
