Henry Rollins Quotes
As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.
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Many reporters have gone to Tea Party rallies looking for expressions of bigotry. What they have tended to find instead is a constitutional fundamentalism that argues that Washington has no right to tell individuals or states what to do.
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As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
