Henry Rollins Quotes
Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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'...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.
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We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.
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To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.
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I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.
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Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.
