Henry Rollins Quotes
I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that’s weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.
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I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
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Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
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I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
