Henry Rollins Quotes
When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.
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We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.
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The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.
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When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.
