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

• 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

• I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Different
  • Book
  • Poverty

• Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Career

• Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio stations, promoters, people who I need to see and thank and talk to to make sure they remember me. And then, I get - out of all that day of talking and smiling and shaking hands and getting photos, I get to sing for two hours.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • People
  • Remember

• I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

  

  Pam Gems
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

  

  Jonathan Edwards
  • Heaven
  • Travel

• I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Speak

• Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

  

  Augustus
  • Commander
  • Rash

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

  

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  • Heaven
  • Hell
  • Karma