Henry Rollins Quotes

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

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• I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Work
  • Today
  • Early

• Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • End
  • Fight
  • Development

• I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Drama
  • New York

• There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Nothing

• It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • World
  • Want
  • Development

• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Records

• I think Sean could play running back. I think he could play receiver. I think he could play corner, ... Any expanded role is something we'll continue to work with because he's so unusual.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Work
  • Running
  • Player

• Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Succeed

• What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Think
  • Funny

• Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Storm

• We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although I'm a proud Democrat, I'm a prouder American. And I think all of us believe, regardless of our party affiliations, that this is a critical time, where we've got to solve big problems.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Believe
  • American

• I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Moments

• I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Weird
  • Smart
  • Independent

• Didacticism is the death of art.

  

  Alice Dunbar Nelson
  • Art
  • Death
  • Didacticism

• ... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Girl
  • Health
  • Boy

• It is true, as the champions of the extremists say, that there can be no life without change, and that to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. It is no less true, however, that change may mean death and not life, and retrogression instead of development.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Death
  • Change
  • Afraid

• Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don't remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?

  

  Salman Khan
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Girlfriend

• Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genius
  • Mediocrity
  • Consolation

• I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

  

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