Henry Rollins Quotes

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• Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Different
  • Society

• I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • Choice

• I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Sleep

• I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Cute

• It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.

  

  T.I.
  • Up
  • Time
  • Ifs

• We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Neurons

• Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

  

  Urie Bronfenbrenner
  • Crazy

• It felt a little empty with her not here. Michelle has always been a big part of the event. I miss competing with her. It really doesn't feel like the Nationals.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Part
  • Event
  • Michelle

• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Long
  • Done
  • Reason

• My religion teaches me to love all equally.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Religion
  • Teaches

• L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Angel
  • Act
  • Beast

• Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

  

  Wayne White
  • Form
  • Sculpture
  • Elevating

• May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • May
  • Home

• She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • School
  • Morning
  • Arms

• At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Feels
  • Constitution

• You don't have to twist my arm to work.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Arms
  • Twists