Henry Rollins Quotes

I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

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• I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Choose

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Different
  • Play
  • Acting

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Think
  • Father
  • Son

• I'm a natural blonde!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Natural
  • Blonde

• I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Woman
  • Independent
  • Independent Woman

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fear
  • Air
  • Enough

• Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Positive

• Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Different
  • Job
  • Friends

• And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Up
  • Time
  • Experience

• As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time

• I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Sister
  • Ugly

• Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• We want for everyone to be treated with dignity and respect in any situation. And so we've been thinking about how do we use our platform to empower women. More than half of our hosts are women, and many are using the extra income to start their own businesses.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Respect

• Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Die
  • Phoenix

• I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

  

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