Henry Rollins Quotes

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

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• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Mom
  • Drama

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Blessing
  • Curse

• So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • People
  • Different
  • Day

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• Well, I'm an independent person.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Person
  • Independent
  • Well

• Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • High
  • Freedom

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Old

• I was raised on NBC television.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Television
  • I Was Raised

• I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Day
  • Learning
  • One Day

• It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Perfect
  • Doing
  • Decisions

• Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Need

• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Proportion
  • U.K.

• I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Stop
  • Kind
  • Doing

• My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • Kids
  • English

• We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Up
  • Live
  • Kids

• Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Master
  • Find Out
  • Hail

• I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Career
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Help
  • Sometimes
  • Helping

• The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Kids
  • Military
  • Prison