Henry Rollins Quotes

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

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• The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• 'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Chance

• The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Best
  • Look
  • Makeup

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
  • Old
  • Barber

• Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Attached
  • Malaysia

• Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Idea
  • How
  • Yes

• I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Win
  • Just
  • Saying

• It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Stars
  • Knowing
  • Astronomy

• We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• 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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Me
  • College
  • Luxury

• There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Idea
  • Achieve

• Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Care
  • Internet

• I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Country
  • School
  • Kids

• But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • School
  • Sex
  • Movies

• I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Song
  • Funny

• I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess.

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Christian
  • India
  • Heritage

• I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

  

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