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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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
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I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.
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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.
