Henry Rollins Quotes
What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
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Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
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When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.
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Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
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When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
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I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.
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I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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If there is one thing I am, it's always right.
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I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.
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I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.
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We're grown men; we were kids when we started. Going through life, there are things we've all gone through - life's ups and downs. It's not all roses, but those things that we've gone through have made us stronger as band.
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I'm the type that makes attempt after attempt and moves forward like a wild horse.
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What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
