Henry Rollins Quotes

There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

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• Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Live
  • Family
  • Parents

• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Actor
  • Industry
  • Image

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Female
  • Killer

• Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Journey
  • Challenges

• All beginnings are involuntary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work

• History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
  • Free

• (Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): 'They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them.'

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Thinking
  • Military

• Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Sleep

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

  

  Larry Wall

• If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Future

• The government may be made up of clever, sensible people. But if they do not believe in basic human values, the more clever or shrewd they are the greater the tragedy they will create.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Time
  • She

• They pronounce absurdly who thus speak, as the Pythagoreans assert: for at the same time they make the infinite to be essence, and distribute it into parts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Essence

• You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Music
  • Rock N Roll
  • Forms

• In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

  

  John Milton
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Heaven

• Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Heaven
  • Sometimes
  • Hell

• There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Heaven
  • Hell
  • Karma