Henry Rollins Quotes

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Strong
  • Young
  • Try

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dying

• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hate
  • Summer
  • Camping

• We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Voice
  • Africa

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Pressure
  • Autonomous

• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Victory
  • Lose
  • Underdog

• As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Home
  • Job

• I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Long
  • American
  • Pressure

• Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Character
  • Change
  • Moment

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Machine

• As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Feel
  • More
  • Pressure

• It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.

  

  Arthur Levitt

• I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Time
  • Inspiration
  • Oprah

• The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Laughter

• 'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Film
  • Remade
  • Lisa

• Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

  

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