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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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.
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Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.
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What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
