Henry Rollins Quotes

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

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• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Think
  • Education
  • Serious

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Qualities

• What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Focus

• Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Hope
  • Reading

• Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Science

• So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Senior

• Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Friends
  • Vacation

• It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Good
  • Pride

• Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Time
  • Book
  • Study

• Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

  

  John Heard

• When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • Up

• Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • People
  • Live
  • America

• We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

  

  John Hope
  • Time
  • River

• I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

  

  Darrell Issa

• She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Great
  • Deal
  • Felt

• Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

  

  William Golding
  • Together
  • Fighting
  • Communication

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

  

  Jeanette MacDonald
  • People
  • Good

• The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Influence

• The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

  

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