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 want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.
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Anything in between the white lines is deemed football.
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The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.
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People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck.
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Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.
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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.
