Henry Rollins Quotes
Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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I love Chanel.
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One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?
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If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
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Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions.'
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
